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01 / Meaning & origin
Ulf is a masculine given name documented in French, Spanish, German and 7 other languages. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Úlfr, with the stated meaning “wolf”.
Meaning: “wolf”
From Old Norse Úlfr, from úlfr (“wolf”).
02 / Across borders
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5 countries with official statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Official statistics
United States, 1965: 5 boys (rank 3930).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Ulf
Recorded category boys
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 63 | 92 | observed |
| 1946 | 90 | 83 | observed |
| 1947 | 86 | 84 | observed |
| 1948 | 72 | 90 | observed |
| 1949 | 57 | 104 | observed |
| 1950 | 79 | 90 | observed |
| 1951 | 68 | 98 | observed |
| 1952 | 67 | 100 | observed |
| 1953 | 76 | 91 | observed |
| 1954 | 67 | 96 | observed |
| 1955 | 76 | 92 | observed |
| 1956 | 77 | 92 | observed |
| 1957 | 61 | 108 | observed |
| 1958 | 97 | 78 | observed |
| 1959 | 69 | 96 | observed |
| 1960 | 82 | 88 | observed |
| 1961 | 61 | 107 | observed |
| 1962 | 70 | 100 | observed |
| 1963 | 73 | 99 | observed |
| 1964 | 67 | 111 | observed |
| 1965 | 62 | 112 | observed |
| 1966 | 75 | 102 | observed |
| 1967 | 49 | 136 | observed |
| 1968 | 62 | 123 | observed |
| 1969 | 57 | 132 | observed |
| 1970 | 67 | 120 | observed |
| 1971 | 43 | 162 | observed |
| 1972 | 31 | 203 | observed |
| 1973 | 33 | 188 | observed |
| 1974 | 32 | 194 | observed |
| 1975 | 27 | 205 | observed |
| 1976 | 27 | 212 | observed |
| 1977 | 16 | 278 | observed |
| 1978 | 14 | 308 | observed |
| 1979 | 25 | 222 | observed |
| 1980 | 18 | 275 | observed |
| 1981 | 19 | 255 | observed |
| 1982 | 16 | 296 | observed |
| 1983 | 9 | 431 | observed |
| 1984 | 13 | 346 | observed |
| 1985 | 10 | 404 | observed |
| 1986 | 7 | 489 | observed |
| 1987 | 7 | 481 | observed |
| 1988 | 6 | 533 | observed |
| 1989 | 10 | 397 | observed |
| 1990 | 8 | 446 | observed |
| 1991 | 4 | 601 | observed |
| 1992 | 8 | 416 | observed |
| 1993 | 4 | 575 | observed |
| 1994 | 4 | 553 | observed |
| 1995 | 4 | 566 | observed |
| 1996 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1997 | 4 | 549 | observed |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2000 | 4 | 533 | observed |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Ulf” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
ULF— “wolf”
Ulf was twenty-three times in the _Landnama-bok_; and _ulf_ in every possible form ravaged the coasts of Europe. _Wolf_ was again the hereditary prefix in the House of Bavaria, where the dukes varied between Wolf and Wolfart, till Wolfen became the designation of the family, and a legend was invented to account for it. An ancestress had, it was said, given birth to twelve infants all at once, and in the spirit of the child who, being shown his twin brothers, asked “Which…
Ulf was twenty-three times in the _Landnama-bok_; and _ulf_ in every possible form ravaged the coasts of Europe. _Wolf_ was again the hereditary prefix in the House of Bavaria, where the dukes varied between Wolf and Wolfart, till Wolfen became the designation of the family, and a legend was invented to account for it. An ancestress had, it was said, given birth to twelve infants all at once, and in the spirit of the child who, being shown his twin brothers, asked “Which shall we keep,” sent her maid to dispose of the eleven unnecessary ones in the river. The father met her, and asked what she had in her apron. “Only whelps,” she answered; but he was not to be thus put off, made an inspection, saved the children’s lives, and called them the Wolfen, or wolf-whelps! The _Book of Heroes_, however, makes the Wolfings descend from the brave Sir Hildebrand, and be so called from a wolf on their shield granted them by the Emperor Wolfdietrich, in remembrance of an adventure of his own infancy, when he had been carried off by a she-wolf to her den, and remained there unhurt—whence his name of Wolfdietrich.…
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter III (Names From Objects Connected With Mythology), Section II (The Wolf) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People on Wikidata whose recorded given name is this item (not necessarily their first name), ordered by number of Wikipedia articles. Their names may use a different spelling.
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)
Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)
US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · CC0-1.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
