Volk Family History
Volk Name Meaning
German: from a short form of various ancient Germanic personal names formed with the first element folk ‘people’. Compare Folk Slovenian: nickname from volk ‘wolf’. Compare Vovk Wolf and Wolk . Slovak: variant of Vlk from volk an eastern dialect form of vlk ‘wolf’. Compare Wolk . Ukrainian: Russified form of Vovk ‘wolf’. Czech: presumably a variant of Volek derived from its form in the genitive case (Volka; compare Volkova ). Alternatively it may be of German Slovak or Slovenian origin (see above). Jewish (western Ashkenazic): artificial name from German Volk ‘people’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022