Wolf
A Germanic name meaning exactly what it says: wolf. Barely 70 Polish men carry it, and no boy has been given it since at least 2000, so most Poles have never met one.
Wolf Pronunciation
Wolf is pronounced VOLF (/vɔlf/).
What Wolf means
Where Wolf comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Wolf comes straight from Germanic speech, where the ordinary word for the animal doubled as a name. Old High German had wolf, and it fed longer names like Wolfgang and Wolfram before it stood on its own. In Polish the meaning is simply wilk. German bearers wore it plainly, one blunt syllable naming a predator that older Europe feared and respected in equal measure.
Among Ashkenazi Jews the name took a second road. It became the Yiddish partner to the Hebrew Ze'ev, which also means wolf, and both fastened onto Benjamin. Genesis 49:27 calls Benjamin a ravenous wolf, so a boy registered as Benjamin was often called Wolf at home. That pairing set the name firmly into Jewish record books and gravestones across Polish towns.
The name grew no diminutive of its own. It stays one word, and that word means wilk.
How many people are named Wolf
1 in 292414 men in Poland is named Wolf. 73 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4215 among male names.
Wolf as a middle name
Wolf is a first name for 73 men in Poland and a middle name for another 37, a 66/34 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1337th, between Stephane (37) and Zakaria (37).
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#1335 Rashid37
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#1336 Stephane37
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#1337 Wolf37
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#1338 Zakaria37
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#1339 Adrián36