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Meaning & Origins
Contracted version of an old Germanic personal name derived from hrōd ‘fame’ + wulf ‘wolf’. This is found in Old Norse as Hrólfr. As an English given name, it represents in part the survival of a form imported by the Normans, in part a much more recent (19th-century) importation of the modern German name. See also Rudolf.
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German (also Wächter), and Dutch: occupational name for a watchman, from Middle High German wachtære, wehtære, Middle Dutch wacht(e)re, German Wachter ‘watchman’, ‘guard’.
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Nicknames & variations
Rolfe, Rolfi, Rolff, Rolfo, Rolfie, Rolfa, Rolffi, Rolfy, Rolffe, Rolfuwe
Wachtel, Wachs, Wach, Wachowiak, Wachowski, Wachob, Wachholz, Wachsmuth, Wacha, Wachsman
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