Wolf — #1807 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wolf

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,574 babies named Wolf between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wolf currently holds the #1807 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 107 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wolf performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 555 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Wolf shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 436 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Wolf in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wolf in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,574 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.