Wolf

Animal name or diminutive of Wolfgang, German

" traveling wolf"

Wolf Origin and Meaning

The name Wolf is a boy's name of German origin meaning " traveling wolf".

Wolf is a name with a split personality. It can be seen as one of the fierce animal names, like Fox and Bear and Puma, with a touch of the werewolf, or it can be viewed as a quieter, Wolf Blitzer kind of name, fairly common in German (where is pronounced Vulf) and Jewish families, sometimes as a short form of Wolfgang, or even Wolfram or Wolfhart.

CNN newscaster Blitzer inherited the name from his grandfather. Other Wolfs of note include British screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz, who was instrumental in the early James Bond films, painter Wolf Kahn, and the hero of Jack London's 1904 novel The Sea-Wolf, Wolf Larsen.

Despite all it has going for it, Wolf is relatively rare and has never been given to more than 80 babies in a single year. But now that Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott chose it for their infant son, Wolf is primed to climb the charts.

Spelling variations Wolfe or Woolf push it into surname territory, while nickname Wolfie definitely domesticates it.

Wolf Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 158 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Wolf

• 158 Nameberry 2025
• 825 Unique 2023
• 960 England 2020

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Famous People Named Wolf

• Wolf nickname of Adolf Hitler
• Wolf Isaac Blitzer American TV journalist
• Wolf Ruvinskis Mexican actor
• Wolf Larson (born Wolfgang von Wyszecki) German,Canadian actor
• Wolf Kahler German actor
• Wolf Hoffmann German guitarist of metal band Accept
• (Karl) Wolf Biermann German singer,songwriter
• Wolf Mail Canadian blues rock musician
• Wolf Martin Garber birth name of Bill Macy, American actor
• Wolf Wiels (b. 2008) son of singer Free Souffriau and Miguel Wiels
• Wolf Thomas Dres Stephan (b. 2013) son of Princess Tatiana Luise of Hohenlohe,Langenburg and Hubertus Stephan; great,great,grandnephew of Prince Philip
• Wolf Robert Snow (b. 2014) son of TV presenter Dan Snow
• Wolf Aurelius Hawkins (b. 2015) son of fitness bloggers Tammy Hembrow and Reece Hawkins
• Wolf Rhys Meyers (b. 2016) son of actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers
• Wolf Dillon Reece Homme (b. 2016) son of musicians Brody Dalle and Josh Homme
• Wolf Nine Carroll (b. 2017) son of footballer Andy Carroll
• Elijah Wolf O'Connell son of model Amanda Swafford and Tobias O'Connell
• Nakoa Wolf Manakauapo Namakaeha Momoa (b. 2008), son of actors Jason Momoa and Lisa Bonet
• William Wolf Howey (b. 2009) son of actors Sarah Shahi & Steve Howey
• Balthazar Wolf Burwell (b. 2015) son of TV journalist Victoria Recano and Tom Burwell
• Scott Wolf American actor

The name Wolf in Pop Culture

• Wolf a wolf in the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series by Michelle Paver
• Winston "The Wolf" Wolffe character in film "Pulp Fiction"
• Wolf character in the miniseries"The 10th Kingdom"
• Wolf Larsen character in "The Sea,Wolf," a novel by Jack London
• Wolf aka Ze'ev Kesley main character in "Lunar Chronicles" by Marissa Meyer
• Father and Mother Wolf characters in Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book
• Wolf character in "The Talisman" by Stephen King and Peter Straub
• The Wolf aka Ezra character in "The Night Angel Trilogy"
• Wolf code name for a character in "Stormbreaker" by Anthony Horowitz
• Bigby Wolf character in the Fables comic series
• Wolf O'Donnell character in the Star Fox video game series
• Sniper Wolf character in video game Metal Gear Solid
• Wolf Hawkfield character in the Virtua Fighter video game series
• The Big Bad Wolf fairy tale villain
• Clawd Wolf son of the werewolf in "Monster High" show and series
• Wolf Edmunds an astronaut in "Interstellar"

International Variations of the name Wolf

• Ulf Swedish
• Ulv Norwegian