Wolfs Surname
Approximately 5,641 people bear this surname
Wolfs Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netherlands | 2,771 | 1:6,094 | 668 |
| Belgium | 1,873 | 1:6,138 | 765 |
| Germany | 443 | 1:181,728 | 21,226 |
| France | 178 | 1:373,161 | 55,519 |
| United States | 151 | 1:2,400,390 | 147,856 |
| Canada | 90 | 1:409,395 | 36,056 |
| Australia | 37 | 1:729,614 | 48,196 |
| Russia | 21 | 1:6,863,003 | 268,198 |
| England | 9 | 1:6,190,895 | 170,599 |
| Israel | 8 | 1:1,069,704 | 62,476 |
| Spain | 7 | 1:6,678,862 | 92,666 |
| Switzerland | 5 | 1:1,642,583 | 87,307 |
| Thailand | 5 | 1:14,127,669 | 603,945 |
| United Arab Emirates | 3 | 1:3,054,091 | 90,853 |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1:2,264,162 | 49,210 |
| Mexico | 2 | 1:62,063,102 | 83,384 |
| Sweden | 2 | 1:4,923,378 | 241,212 |
| Japan | 2 | 1:63,922,146 | 62,827 |
| Italy | 2 | 1:30,578,344 | 160,757 |
| Brazil | 2 | 1:107,037,166 | 1,031,150 |
| Philippines | 2 | 1:50,619,112 | 341,003 |
| Czechia | 2 | 1:5,316,734 | 169,646 |
| South Africa | 1 | 1:54,177,704 | 343,732 |
| South Korea | 1 | 1:51,240,256 | 8,015 |
| Niger | 1 | 1:19,192,017 | 110,060 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 1:1,363,975 | 22,013 |
| Turkey | 1 | 1:77,821,422 | 191,047 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 1:9,649,122 | 47,873 |
| Vietnam | 1 | 1:92,646,054 | 8,382 |
| Wales | 1 | 1:3,094,532 | 44,023 |
| Argentina | 1 | 1:42,743,414 | 282,706 |
| Belarus | 1 | 1:9,501,059 | 159,228 |
| Poland | 1 | 1:38,008,749 | 231,653 |
| Norway | 1 | 1:5,142,286 | 129,201 |
| Colombia | 1 | 1:47,774,072 | 44,230 |
| Malawi | 1 | 1:17,119,109 | 34,144 |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1:580,542 | 15,155 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 1:17,682,496 | 204,010 |
| Ghana | 1 | 1:27,020,692 | 23,742 |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 1:6,978,905 | 86,260 |
| Chile | 1 | 1:17,616,474 | 93,597 |
| Finland | 1 | 1:5,496,702 | 84,025 |
| Estonia | 1 | 1:1,321,804 | 40,178 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Ecuador | 1 | 1:15,905,846 | 50,210 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| England | 2 | 1:12,187,685 | 173,419 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 9 | 1:5,579,854 | 232,921 |
Wolfs (17) may also be a first name.
Wolfs Demographics
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Wolfs Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Wolfs Come From? nationality or country of origin
Wolfs is more frequently found in The Netherlands than any other country/territory. It may appear in the variant forms:. For other potential spellings of this surname click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Wolfs? popularity and diffusion
The surname is the 85,490th most commonly used family name on earth It is held by around 1 in 1,291,889 people. The surname Wolfs is mostly found in Europe, where 94 percent of Wolfs reside; 93 percent reside in Western Europe and 81 percent reside in Germanic Europe. It is also the 2,694,839th most prevalent first name on earth, borne by 17 people.
The last name Wolfs is most widely held in The Netherlands, where it is held by 2,771 people, or 1 in 6,094. In The Netherlands it is most prevalent in: Limburg, where 32 percent are found, North Brabant, where 30 percent are found and North Holland, where 10 percent are found. Without taking into account The Netherlands this last name is found in 45 countries. It is also common in Belgium, where 33 percent are found and Germany, where 8 percent are found.
Wolfs Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Wolfs has changed over time. In The United States the number of people bearing the Wolfs last name rose 1,678 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it rose 450 percent between 1881 and 2014.
Wolfs Last Name Statistics demography
In The United States those holding the Wolfs last name are 37.44% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 84.21% being registered to vote for the party.
The amount Wolfs earn in different countries varies greatly. In United States they earn 10.29% less than the national average, earning $38,708 USD per year and in Canada they earn 61.49% more than the national average, earning $80,235 CAD per year.
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Wolfs
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