Given name & surname · also Germanic
Wolfram
“resembling a black wolf; a raven-wolf”
Wolfram is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “resembling a black wolf; a raven-wolf.”
Original GermanWulfram
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “resembling a black wolf; a raven-wolf.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Germanic.
How it developed
Its Germanic formation brings together wolf (“wolf”) and hramn (“raven”).
The story
The name’s historical associations include the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach during the Middle Ages.
Wolfram through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 58
- 58 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,801 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,801 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 240 as a first name in 2020; 1,531 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wolfram’s family of names
Wolfram has a short form in Wolf. In German usage, Wolfram has a related form in Wohlfromm. In German usage, Wolfram has a related form in WOLFGRAM.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Wulframvariant · German
- Wulfgrammvariant · German
- Wolfrumvariant · German
- Wolframmvariant · German
- Wolfgramvariant · German
- Wohlfrommvariant · German
- Wolfshort form
- Wolfframlikely variant
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Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wolfram
- Wolfram von EschenbachGerman knight and poet (1170–1220)
- Wolfram von RichthofenGerman military officer and aviator (1895–1945)
- Wolfram SieversGerman Managing Director of the NS Association German Ancestral Heritage (Ahnenerbe) (1905-1948)
- Wolfram LöweEast German footballerborn 1945
- Wolfram WuttkeGerman football player and coach (1961–2015)
- Wolfram FiedlerEast German luger (1951–1988)
- Wolfram HuhnGerman rowerborn 1973
- Wolfram Waibel Jr.Austrian sports shooterborn 1970
- Wolfram EberhardGerman academic (1909–1989)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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