Wolf

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Male Male Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Finland Finnish
Denmark Danish
Norway Norwegian

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Origin and Meaning

Short form of Old High German names containing the name element ULF, Old High German wolf = 'wolf' [1] [2]

Related Names

Volf
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Wolf
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Wolff
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Vulf
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Swedish
Wulf
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Finish Norwegian Swedish
Wulff
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Frequency of occurance as female nameFrequency of occurance as male name
Danish Norwegian Swedish

Patronyms [What's That?]

Male

Wolfsen Denmark

Female

Wolfsdatter Denmark

Combinations

For combinations see ULF (name element)

Cognates

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Wolf
Genitive: Wolfs
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Wolf
Genitive: Wolfin
Partitive: Wolfia
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Wolf
Genitive: Wolfs
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Wolf
Genitive: Wolfs

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[3]
48 191 0 7 48 184
Finland Finland[4]
n.a.
63 0 0
n.a.
63
Denmark Denmark[5]
16
n.a.
0
n.a.
16
n.a.
Norway Norway[6]
15
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
15
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[7]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Wolf.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  3. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  4. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  5. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  6. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/