Wolfinger

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Wolfinger is a surname, most frequently recorded in Germany. In Liechtenstein it is the 40th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and German, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany1 in 71K◐
  • USUnited States1 in 247K
  • LILiechtenstein1 in 222

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4K ●

across 4 countries

Sources
167 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 247K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wölfinger in SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Wolfinger is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
DE Germany—1,5761.4K rec.——Wolfinger70
US United States—1,3469.4K rec.1 in 247K1.3KWolfinger167
GB United Kingdom—693677 rec.——Wolfinger21
AT Austria—285168 rec.——Wolfinger39
LI Liechtenstein#402694 rec.—119Wolfinger14
AU Australia—180165 rec.——Wolfinger35
CA Canada—9291 rec.——Wolfinger12
RU Russia—6363 rec.——Wolfinger3
IT Italy—3234 rec.——Wolfinger1
IN India—2626 rec.——Wolfinger2
NZ New Zealand—2020 rec.——Wolfinger1
LB Lebanon—1920 rec.——Wolfinger1

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English10K72%
  • German2.5K17%
  • Spanish3132%
  • 2492%
  • French1961%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English10,36072%
German2,50517%
Spanish3132%
2492%
French1961%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Wolfinger is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname640 records spelled Wolfinger4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, United Kingdom, El Salvador

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Wölfinger

  • a separate surname309 records spelled Wolfinger2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Russia

    Also written Wölfinger

  • Hungarian surname36 records spelled Wolfinger2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States

    Also written Wölfinger

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Albert Wolfinger, b. 1850Ray Wolfinger, b. 1931Norm Wolfinger, b. 1945Franz Wolfinger, b. 1946August Wolfinger, b. 1949Joe Wolfinger, b. 1985Marco Wolfinger, b. 1989Sandro Wolfinger, b. 1991Fabio Wolfinger, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Wolfinger
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.3K#19,933
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020001.3K#19,136
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.1K#23,144
LI LiechtensteinStatistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)2020119—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202617—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202417#41,155
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—17#100,707
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202616—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—16#104,274
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19417—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19716—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)19114—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 23 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wolfinger?
We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Wolfinger (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Wolfinger have the most bearers?
Wolfinger is most frequently recorded in Germany, where it is most often spelled wolfinger.
How common is Wolfinger compared with other names?
In Liechtenstein, Wolfinger is the 40th most common surname of 657 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wolfinger” — the 40th most common surname in Liechtenstein. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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