Wolf
#1,886 for boys in 2025, 83 births
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 107 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,658since 1912
Wolf over time
Rank among boys' names. Wolf has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,886 | 83 |
| 2024 | #1,809 | 90 |
| 2023 | #1,774 | 91 |
| 2022 | #1,700 | 100 |
| 2021 | #1,597 | 107 |
| 2020 | #1,815 | 82 |
| 2019 | #1,777 | 87 |
| 2018 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2017 | #1,918 | 75 |
| 2016 | #2,086 | 67 |
| 2015 | #2,212 | 61 |
| 2014 | #2,492 | 50 |
| 2013 | #2,364 | 53 |
| 2012 | #4,131 | 24 |
| 2011 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #3,633 | 29 |
| 2009 | #3,721 | 28 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #4,243 | 23 |
| 2006 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #4,121 | 19 |
| 2000 | #4,204 | 18 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #7,422 | 6 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1986 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,593 | 8 |
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| 1978 | #3,614 | 10 |
| 1977 | #3,606 | 10 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #3,282 | 9 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #4,136 | 5 |
| 1967 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,537 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,033 | 5 |
| 1961 | #4,065 | 5 |
| 1960 | #2,121 | 15 |
| 1959 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #1,838 | 19 |
| 1957 | #3,257 | 7 |
| 1956 | #2,969 | 8 |
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| 1953 | #3,143 | 7 |
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| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
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| 1912 | #2,544 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wolf! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1912–1952, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wolf is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#765 · 1 in 5,530
- New Jersey#1,034 · 1 in 8,141
- California#1,091 · 1 in 9,954
- Florida#1,106 · 1 in 8,667
- New York#1,215 · 1 in 9,686
Best ever in a state: #473 in New York, 1958.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #765 | 5 | 1 in 5,530 |
| New Jersey | #1,034 | 5 | 1 in 8,141 |
| California | #1,091 | 19 | 1 in 9,954 |
| Florida | #1,106 | 11 | 1 in 8,667 |
| New York | #1,215 | 9 | 1 in 9,686 |
| Texas | #1,567 | 11 | 1 in 16,246 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Wolf
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,809 → #1,886)
- 71 spots since 2020 (#1,815 → #1,886)
- 326 spots since 2015 (#2,212 → #1,886)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2021 at #1,597 (107 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 16,350 boys born in 2021 were named Wolf (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,579 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.5% of all boys named Wolf (555) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | #2,544 (1912) | #2,544 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 60 | #1,838 (1958) | #2,848 |
| 1960s | 42 | #2,121 (1960) | #3,590 |
| 1970s | 64 | #3,282 (1970) | #3,945 |
| 1980s | 48 | #3,959 (1987) | #5,126 |
| 1990s | 127 | #3,092 (1998) | #5,053 |
| 2000s | 204 | #3,686 (2006) | #4,390 |
| 2010s | 555 | #1,777 (2019) | #2,632 |
| 2020s | 553 | #1,597 (2021) | #1,764 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Wolf in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 17,460 of them was named Wolf, which outranked 88.1% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,695Nael101
- #1,695Rip101
- #1,695Yousuf101
- #1,700Wolf100
- #1,700Jetson100
- #1,700Kashtyn100
- #1,700Viaan100
- #1,706Armaan99
- #1,706Baron99
- #1,706Cosmo99
Tied with 5 names at #1,700; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.