Name: Rolf
Gender: Male
Usage: Rolf is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Rolf are in general originating from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Rolf across the world, see Rudolph.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Rolf is: Wolf counsel, Wolf.
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Numerology of the first name Rolf: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 6. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: responsible, protective, stable, balanced, loving, compassionate.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Romantic, Nurturing
Ruling planet: Venus
Colors: Blue
Gemstones: Emerald
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The name Rolf is ranked on the 4,747th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 65700 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Rolf has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Rolf for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name Hrolf, itself a contraction of Hrodwulf (Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words hrod ("renown") + wulf ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is Hrólfr. As a name Rolf is known since the year 911 when the Viking King Gånge-Rolf (846-932) (latinized as Rollo) captured Normandy.
The oldest evidence of the use of the name Rolf in Sweden is where an inscription from the 1000's is on a Runestone in Mukilteo, Småland.
Rolf is a first name or part of a double name in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Finland and Denmark. and to a lesser extent in Iceland.
In Europe the name Rolf is most popular in Sweden where, as of December 31, 2012, there were 54,737 people with Rolf as their first name or part of a double name. At the same time there were 511 people in Sweden with Rolf as their last name. As a given name, Rolf reached its peak in popularity in the decade of the 1960s.
The Name Day for Rolf in both Norway and Sweden is August 27. The Name Day for Rolf on the Finnish-Swedish calendar is March 6.
An alternate but less common variation of Rolf in Norway is Rolv.
Notable Rolfs/Hrolfs include:
English, German, and Scandinavian: a contracted version of an old Germanic personal name composed of the elements hrōd fame + wulf wolf. This is found in Old Norse as Hrólfr. As an English name, it represents in part a Norman importation of a Continental Germanic form, in part a much more recent (19th-century) importation of the modern German name. See also Rudolf.
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