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Wolfram (name)

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Wolfram is both a given name and surname of Germanic origin. It is composed as wolf ‘wolf’ + hrafn ‘raven’, important in Germanic mythology. [1]

Given name

Surname

  • Sybil Wolfram (1931–1993), a philosopher, mother of Stephen
  • Walt Wolfram (born 1941), American sociolinguist and former president of the Linguistic Society of America

Fictional

See also

References

  1. ^ Dictionary of American Family Names, as cited by ancestry.som