For Czech-American families · The Golden Piglet Find your family’s village

Czech surnames

Volf: what the name means

Volf: “wolf” (from German Wolf).

In January 2017, 6,399 people in Czechia were named Volf or Volfová (the women’s form).

Where the name was most common in 2017

Areas are the Interior Ministry’s; numbers under 5 are not shown.

To find the family in the old parish books, you need the village they came from.

More Czech surnames

Questions

What does the surname Volf mean?

Volf: “wolf” (from German Wolf).

How many people are called Volf in the Czech Republic?

In January 2017, 6,399 people in Czechia were named Volf or Volfová, according to the Czech Ministry of the Interior.

Where in Czechia is the name Volf most common?

In 2017 the largest numbers lived around Praha (853), Mladá Boleslav (265), Černošice (187).

Sources

  1. Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic: surname counts by area, January 2017 (archived; the ministry no longer publishes them)