# Volker (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/volker/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 5 | 4,572 |

## People named Volker

- Volker Schlöndorff, German film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1939)
- Volker Finke, German association football player and manager
- Volker Zotz, Austrian religious studies scholar
- Volker Türk, Austrian politician and United Nations human rights chief (born 1965)
- Volker Beck, East German sprinter and hurdler
- Volker Bruch, German actor
- Volker Strassen, German mathematician and algorithms researcher (b.1936)
- Volker Zerbe, German handball player
- Volker Winkler, East German cyclist
- Volker Fischer, German fencer (b.1950)
- Volker Rühe, former German politician
- Volker Fried, field hockey player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.