Family name origins & meanings
- German and Dutch : from a short form of the personal name Arnolf, composed of the Germanic elements arn ‘eagle’ + wulf ‘wolf’.
- Dutch : from a reduced form of Nodolf, derived from the personal name Odolf by transfer of the final -n in a preceding personal name such as Jan, Simoen. Odolf is composed of the Germanic elements aud ‘wealth’ + wulf ‘wolf’.