Wolfe

Wolfe is the 388th most common surname in the United States, shared by 80,540 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,711.

By the numbers

People: 80,540
Rank: 388th
How common: 1 in 3,711
Per 100,000: 27.0

Where the name comes from

Origin a given name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wolfe described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.9%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)American writer
Tom Wolfe (1930–2018)American author and journalist
James Wolfe (1727–1759)British Army officer
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019)American science fiction and fantasy writer
David Møller Wolfe (born 2002)Norwegian footballer
Jarmila Wolfe (born 1987)Slovak-Australian female tennis player
Whitney Wolfe Herd (born 1989)American businesswoman
Madison Wolfe (born 2002)American actress

People named Wolfe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wolfe

Also a first name

Wolfe has been given to 530 American babies as a first name since 1994, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.