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Wolfe

#2,878 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Wolf

Wolfe has been given to 530 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #2,878 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 53 recorded.

Babies named Wolfe, 2025

1 in 75,300

Wolfe over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wolfe: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Wolf

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wolfe means

Wolfe is a variant of Wolf.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Wolfe → Wolf. The family’s meaning is “wolf”, recorded in the naming reference for Wolf.

Origin, language, and formation

Wolfe is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Wolf.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 530 boys were recorded with the name Wolfe between 1994 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 53 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,587 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,615 in 2020 to #2,878 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,468 in 2015 to #2,878 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wolfe?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 38,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,878
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wolfe sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wolfe. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wolfes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wolfe was born before 2020 — so the typical Wolfe is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
530
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Choose a decade

2020s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (277).

Is Wolfe rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−133
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−263
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,590
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.0%
Peak was 2022 (53)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,587
2022

Spellings of Wolfe

Wolfe is not the most common spelling — Cole is, with 85.2% against Wolfe's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Wolfe is used

Across 1910–2025, Wolfe was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 459,420 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wolfe has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wolfe around the world

Where Wolfe ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #1,538
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2010–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wolfe by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,878
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 263
Best rank ever
#2,587
2022
Peak year
2022
53 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
530
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Wolfe

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Wolfe

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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