Surname Wolf in modern Croatia

Wolf families are Croats and they are mostly from Cabar. In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Zagreb and Cabar.

Prevalence

About 140 people with faimily name Wolf live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 140 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant.
They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 21 cities and 12 other places, mostly in Zagreb (50), Djurdjenovac in Nasice area (15), Prezid (<10), Sisak (<10), and in Rijeka (<10).

Outside Croatia

Family name Wolf (including: Wolff , Woolf , Wollf , Wolph , Wholf , Woolff , Wollff and Wohlf ) is present in 158 countries worldwide. The family name "Wolf " is used by some 200000 people in the United States , about 60000 in Germany , and some 40000 people in Brazil. "Wolph " is used by some 100 people in the United States and small number in Austria. "Wolff " is used by some 40000 people in Germany , about 30000 in the United States , and some 10000 people in Brazil.

Characteristic first names

Nikola Wolf, Dalibor Wolf, Duško Wolf, Miroslav Wolf, Hinko Wolf, Marko Wolf, Ingrid Wolf, Vladimir Wolf, Predrag Wolf, Igor Wolf, Ivan Wolf, Zrinka Wolf, Zdravko Wolf, Walter Wolf, Goran Wolf, Zoran Wolf, Krešimir Wolf, Denis Wolf, Snježana Wolf

Mentions in sources

In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned about one hundred times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.

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