How common is the surname Wolff?

21,815 people in the United States had the surname Wolff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,153 Americans. It ranked 1,650th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wolff?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wolff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Wolff?

Nat Wolff, American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter, followed by Alex Wolff.

Where is the surname Wolff most common?

Wikidata records people named Wolff in the United States, Argentina and Germany and 1 other country.

Is the surname Wolff getting more or less common?

More common. 21,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,815 in 2010, up 2.3%.

The surname Wolff

A surname, carried by 21,815 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W410

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wolff is more common than 99% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 21,815 people named Wolff in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 14,153 Americans. That is up 2.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 21,321.

#1,650

rank among US surnames

21,815

people in 2010

7.4

per 100,000 Americans

+2.3%

change since 2000 (was #1,543)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,641	Painter	21,969	14,054
#1,642	Regan	21,951	14,065
#1,643	Bragg	21,934	14,076
#1,644	Engel	21,933	14,077
#1,645	Valadez	21,859	14,124
#1,646	Carbajal	21,838	14,138
#1,647	Redmond	21,834	14,141

Who is named Wolff

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Wolff identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

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

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Wolffs

18 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Nat Wolff
American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter, born 1994
Alex Wolff
American actor, singer, writer, born 1997
Richard D. Wolff
American Marxian economist (born 1942)
Josh Wolff
American soccer player and manager, born 1977
Michael Wolff
American author, essayist, and journalist, born 1953
Enrique Wolff
Argentine association football player, born 1949
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,, 1915–2008
Lester L. Wolff
American politician (1919–2021)
Owen Wolff
American soccer player, born 2004

Notable Wolffs come mostly from the United States (15), Argentina (1) and Germany (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wolff

Wolff has the Soundex code W410, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W410.

Questions

How common is the surname Wolff?: 21,815 people in the United States had the surname Wolff in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 14,153 Americans. It ranked 1,650th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wolff?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Wolff identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Wolff?: Nat Wolff, American actor, musician, and singer-songwriter, followed by Alex Wolff.
Where is the surname Wolff most common?: Wikidata records people named Wolff in the United States, Argentina and Germany and 1 other country.
Is the surname Wolff getting more or less common?: More common. 21,321 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 21,815 in 2010, up 2.3%.