Wolfhunt Surname
Approximately 1 people bear this surname
Wolfhunt Surname Definition:
This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the wolf-hunt,' a hunter of wolves, from wolf, and Middle English hunte, a hunter, the latter being a later form (v. Hunt). Wolves were found in England longer than is supposed. A writ of Edward I (1281) commissions Peter Corbet to kill wolves in Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Shropshire, and Stafford (Rymer).
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| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slovakia | 1 | 1:5,336,450 | 140,422 |
Wolfhunt (1) may also be a first name.
Wolfhunt Surname Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
This surname is derived from an occupation. 'the wolf-hunt,' a hunter of wolves, from wolf, and Middle English hunte, a hunter, the latter being a later form (v. Hunt). Wolves were found in England longer than is supposed. A writ of Edward I (1281) commissions Peter Corbet to kill wolves in Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Shropshire, and Stafford (Rymer). A family of this name held lands in Derbyshire by service of keeping down the wolves in Peak Forest (Arch. Assoc. Journal). John Engayne held lands (1273) in Huntingdonshire by tenure of maintaining dogs for the king's wolf-hunting (Hundred Rolls, ii. 627, quoted by Lower).
Richard le Wulfhunt, Kent, 1273. Hundred Rolls.
Walter le Wolfhunt. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.
John Wolfehunt. Calendarium Rotulorum Originalium.
Robert Wolfhunte, Nottinghamshire, Pardons Roll, 6 Richard II.
(English) Wolf - Hunter [Old English wulf + hunta, hunter] Richard le Wulfhunt.—Hand. Rolls.
The Northants Wollaston and the Glouc. Woolaston were Wolaveston in the 13th cent. The Staffs Woollaston, Wol(l)aston in the 13th cent., was Ullavestone in Domesday-Bk. The Shropsh. Wollaston was Wolastone (-e doubtless unorig.) 13th cent. Wollaston, worc., was Wolarston a.d. 1327, prob. repr. Anglo-Saxon Wulfgárestún.
Anglo-Saxon wolf and hunta, wolf-hunter. A family of this name held lands in Derbyshire, by the service of keeping the Forest of the Peak clear of wolves. Archaeol. Assoc. Journal, vii. 197. Nothing can be more erroneous than the popular opinion that King Edgar succeeded, by the peculiar impost of wolves' heads, which he levied upon his Welsh tributaries, in exterminating this villanous quadruped. That it existed at the time of the Norman Conquest, and even so late as the reign of Edward I., is evident from the following authorities. The Carmen de Bello Hastingensi (v. 571) states that William the Conqueror left the dead bodies of the English upon the battle-field, to be devoured "by worms, and wolves, and birds, and dogs"-(vermibus, atque lupis, avibus, canibusque voranda.) In the year 1851 many skulls of wolves were taken out of a disused medieval well at Pevensey Castle.
Phonetically Similar Names
| Surname | Similarity | Worldwide Incidence | Prevalency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolfhound | 82 | 11 | / |
| Wolfent | 80 | 0 | / |
| Wolfenhaut | 78 | 12 | / |
| Wolfhounds | 78 | 2 | / |
| Wohlfant | 75 | 0 | / |
| Wolfyanto | 71 | 29 | / |
| Wohlfondt | 71 | 1 | / |
| Wolfand | 67 | 46 | / |
| Wolfond | 67 | 36 | / |
| Wilfont | 67 | 2 | / |
| Wolfenheit | 67 | 2 | / |
| Wilfhend | 63 | 1 | / |
| Wolfwind | 63 | 1 | / |
| Wolfende | 63 | 1 | / |
| Wohlfond | 63 | 1 | / |
| Wolf-Nudd | 59 | 1 | / |
| Wolffiend | 59 | 1 | / |
| Wulfenite | 59 | 1 | / |
| Willfound | 59 | 0 | / |
| Woolfinde | 59 | 0 | / |
| Wilfand | 53 | 42 | / |
| Wilfond | 53 | 28 | / |
| Wulfand | 53 | 5 | / |
| Wilaiphanit | 53 | 4 | / |
| Walfond | 53 | 2 | / |
| Wolf-Weiand | 53 | 1 | / |
| Willfond | 50 | 73 | / |
| Walvante | 50 | 20 | / |
| Wohlvend | 50 | 6 | / |
| Welfandy | 50 | 1 | / |
| Willfand | 50 | 1 | / |
| Wahlfand | 50 | 1 | / |
| Walfandi | 50 | 1 | / |
| Wellfond | 50 | 0 | / |
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