Wolfson

surname · Latin script

Meaning: ‘son of Wolf’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/wʊɫfsən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Wolfson is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 89K(measured from records)
  • RURussia≈1 in 299Kas Вольфсон
  • UYUruguay1 in 72K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wolfson itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

3,740 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
115 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ВольфсонCyrillic(measured from records)
VolfsonLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Вольфсон in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and Volfson in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘son of Wolf’.

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Where in the world(measured from records)

Wolfson counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Wolfson is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3,7401 in 89K3.9KVolfson115
RU Russia≈480 est.≈1 in 299K—Вольфсон99
UA Ukraine≈62 est.≈1 in 713K—Вольфсон10
UY Uruguay471 in 72K47——
BY Belarus≈44 est.≈1 in 213K—Вольфсон8
DK Denmark171 in 345K17——

3,740 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling wolfson. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Wolfson is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Ukraine, South Africa

    Also written וולפסון, Woolfson, Wolfsohn, Wolfeson

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Wolfson is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, college, Oxford Univ.. Cambridge

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Univ.

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Harry Austryn Wolfson, b. 1887Isaac Wolfson, b. 1897Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, b. 1927Mark Wolfson, b. 1934Madeline Kahn, b. 1942Richard Wolfson, b. 1950Elliot R. Wolfson, b. 1956Evan Wolfson, b. 1957Tracy Wolfson, b. 1975

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Wolfson,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Wolfson
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020003.9K#7,925
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.7K#8,768
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.5K#8,875
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—47—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—17#26,991
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Wolfson mean, and where does it come from?
‘son of Wolf’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
How do you pronounce Wolfson?
A machine transcription gives /wʊɫfsən/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Wolfson have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.7 thousand people named Wolfson, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled volfson.
Where is Wolfson most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wolfson is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Wolfson?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,740 people named Wolfson in 2010, about 1 in 89 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wolfson”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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