Ulf
Ulf is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name Ulf can be traced back to the Old Norse word for wolf: úlfr . Compare: Danish ulv , Icelandic úlfur , Swedish ulv , Norwegian ulv , Faroese úlvur . The corresponding female first name is Ylva .
name day
Name days according to the Catholic calendar are:
- January 18 : Margitta, Ulfried, Uwe
- July 18 : Arnulf, Ulf, Friedrich
Name bearer
First name
- Ulf Andersson (* 1951), Swedish chess player
- Ulf Beier (* 1941), German writer
- Ulf Böge (* 1942), German economist and President of the Federal Cartel Office
- Ulf von Euler (1905–1983), Swedish physiologist
- Ulf Fiedler (* 1930), German author
- Ulf Fink (* 1942), German politician
- Ulf Ganschow (* 1975), German handball player
- Ulf Göpfert (* 1943), German painter and graphic artist
- Ulf Grahn (* 1942), Swedish composer
- Ulf Hjalmvall (* 1955), Swedish pool player
- Ulf Hohmann (* 1963), German behavioral scientist
- Ulf Jantzen (1909–2000), German archaeologist
- Ulf Kirsten (* 1965), German soccer player
- Ulf Leirstein (* 1973), Norwegian politician
- Ulf Linde (1929–2013), Swedish art critic, museum director, writer and musician
- Ulf Merbold (* 1941), German astronaut
- Ulf Poschardt (* 1967), German journalist and author
- Ulf-Jensen Röller (* 1964), German television journalist
- Ulf Sand (1938–2014), Norwegian politician
- Ulf Schmidt (* 1934), Swedish tennis player
- Ulf Schmidt (playwright) (* 1966), German playwright , theater scholar, blogger, digital consultant
- Ulf Stahl (1944–2019), Austrian microbiologist and geneticist
- Ulf Stark (1944–2017), Swedish writer
- Ulf G. Stuberger (1949–2015), German journalist and book author
- Ulf Thiele (* 1971), German politician
- Ulf Timmermann (* 1962), German shot putter
stage name
- Ulf Theodor Schwadorf, pseudonym of the German musician and producer Markus Stock (* 1978)
family name
- Christoph Ulf (* 1949), Austrian ancient historian
- Otto Ulf (1907–1993), Austrian bassoonist, teacher