Meaning not yet researched.
Wolfgang: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 115 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,282 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,282 in 2019; #1,519 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wolfgang in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,519 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #1,282.
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Wolfgang: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 115 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,282 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 148 (2021).
In 2025, 115 US boys were named Wolfgang, making it the 1,519th most common boys’ name of the year, up 20 places from #1,539 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 115 boys named Wolfgang in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,282, reached in 2019. The most boys given the name in a single year was 148, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,480 in 2015 and #3,673 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wolfgang in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1929 with 8 babies. In all, 3,220 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,002 babies named Wolfgang.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,294 US boys were named Wolfgang; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,853 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wolfgang ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,147 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wolf (1,658 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Vuk are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vuk (251).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Wolfgang in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 18 | #1,147 | #958 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,174 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,258 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,273 | #1,313 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,408 | #2,376 |
| New York | 7 | #1,564 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 115 | #1,519 |
| 2024 | — | — | 115 | #1,539 |
| 2023 | — | — | 145 | #1,322 |
| 2022 | — | — | 131 | #1,413 |
| 2021 | — | — | 148 | #1,288 |
| 2020 | — | — | 132 | #1,352 |
| 2019 | — | — | 146 | #1,282 |
| 2018 | — | — | 126 | #1,400 |
| 2017 | — | — | 117 | #1,458 |
| 2016 | — | — | 119 | #1,455 |
| 2015 | — | — | 113 | #1,480 |
| 2014 | — | — | 93 | #1,669 |
| 2013 | — | — | 68 | #2,019 |
| 2012 | — | — | 67 | #2,065 |
| 2011 | — | — | 84 | #1,754 |
| 2010 | — | — | 69 | #2,009 |
| 2009 | — | — | 64 | #2,142 |
| 2008 | — | — | 50 | #2,540 |
| 2007 | — | — | 38 | #3,087 |
| 2006 | — | — | 48 | #2,541 |
| 2005 | — | — | 52 | #2,295 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,312 |
| 2003 | — | — | 49 | #2,236 |
| 2002 | — | — | 50 | #2,152 |
| 2001 | — | — | 56 | #1,956 |
| 2000 | — | — | 51 | #2,012 |
| 1999 | — | — | 58 | #1,761 |
| 1998 | — | — | 62 | #1,679 |
| 1997 | — | — | 53 | #1,813 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,906 |
| 1995 | — | — | 59 | #1,587 |
| 1994 | — | — | 66 | #1,470 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,505 |
| 1992 | — | — | 49 | #1,749 |
| 1991 | — | — | 27 | #2,604 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,773 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,613 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #3,075 |
| 1987 | — | — | 15 | #3,335 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,447 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,042 |
| 1984 | — | — | 7 | #5,540 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,214 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,578 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,225 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,345 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,545 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #5,113 |
| 1976 | — | — | 8 | #4,407 |
| 1975 | — | — | 13 | #3,072 |
| 1974 | — | — | 8 | #4,181 |
| 1973 | — | — | 11 | #3,218 |
| 1972 | — | — | 7 | #4,429 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,654 |
| 1970 | — | — | 26 | #1,742 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,547 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,197 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,981 |
| 1966 | — | — | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,615 |
| 1964 | — | — | 11 | #2,661 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #4,040 |
| 1962 | — | — | 12 | #2,500 |
| 1961 | — | — | 14 | #2,319 |
| 1960 | — | — | 16 | #2,117 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,110 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,367 |
| 1957 | — | — | 13 | #2,373 |
| 1956 | — | — | 11 | #2,624 |
| 1955 | — | — | 10 | #2,760 |
| 1954 | — | — | 14 | #2,205 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,286 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,723 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,673 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,200 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,633 |
| 1932 | — | — | 7 | #3,357 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,997 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #3,246 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).