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How popular is the name Wolf?

Births per year, rank history and how many Wolfs are alive today.

Wolf (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 1613th in 2025 and given to 16 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2022, when 32 babies were given the name, the 949th most popular that year. Wolf is one spelling of a name also recorded as Wolfe; the combined figures below cover every spelling.

Across all spellings of the name, the Wolf you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Wolfs born in England and Wales are between 3 and 9, and there are at least 410 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Wolf - on average, only one in every 740 such rooms contains a Wolf.

How many babies are named Wolf each year?

Includes all spellings: Wolf, Wolfe. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Wolf spelling rank?

Where does the Wolfe spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.