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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wolf ‘wolf’ + hart ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.
  • German and Dutch : from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements wille ‘will’, ‘wish’ + fridu ‘peace’.
  • German and Dutch : nickname for a wild or wily man, from Middle High German wülven ‘to behave like a wolf’.

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