# Wolff (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/wolff/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 21,815 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,650 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 14,153 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.3% (21,321 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Wolff in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.4% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Wolff in the United States, Argentina, Germany and France.

## People named Wolff

- Nat Wolff, American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter
- Alex Wolff, American actor, singer, writer
- Richard D. Wolff, American Marxian economist (born 1942)
- Josh Wolff, American soccer player and manager
- Michael Wolff, American author, essayist, and journalist
- Enrique Wolff, Argentine association football player
- Frank Wolff, American actor (1928–1971)
- Christian Wolff, American composer and classicist (born 1934)
- Robert Paul Wolff, American political philosopher (1933–2025)
- Milton Wolff, American communist who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War,
- Lester L. Wolff, American politician (1919–2021)
- Owen Wolff, American soccer player

and 6 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Wolfe, Wolf, Woolf, Wulff, Wulf, Wilby.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.