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🔥Wolf

Animal name or diminutive of Wolfgang
"traveling Wolf"
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Pamela Redmond
By Pamela Redmond
Updated Thu Apr 03 2025

Wolf Origin and Meaning

The name Wolf is a girl's name meaning "traveling Wolf".

Notable Wolfs like Blitzer, Mankowitz, and Kahn give this name a masculine bent, but nature names are inherently unisex, so we see no reason why Wolf can't be used on a baby girl.

Historically Wolf has been more common among German (where it's pronounced Vulf) and Jewish families, occasionally as a nickname for Wolfgang.

The nickname Wolfie softens and feminizes Wolf, while Wolfe turns it into a surname.

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    daughter of actress Christian Serratos.

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