Volf Name Origin and Family Crest

Volf is a spelling of the German surname Wolf. Read literally, Volf points to “Wolf (given name or nickname)”. Volf writes “v” in place of the “w” found in Wolf, a common scribal difference. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The same family of names includes Wolfe.

French birth records list 250 children named Volf between 1891 and 2000.

A coat of arms belongs to a particular family line rather than to everyone named Volf, so the heraldry linked to Wolf is a starting point, not an automatic right. Get the complete Volf report, with a museum-style coat of arms.