Save Gender Masculine Usage Jewish, Jewish (Russified), Jewish (Ukrainianized) Scripts וולף(Hebrew) Вольф(Russian, Ukrainian) Pronounced Pron. VAWLF(German) VULYF(Russian) VWOLYF(Ukrainian) [key] Other Forms FormsWolf Meaning & History Variant spelling of Wolf as well as Russified and Ukrainianised form. It is used by speakers of Yiddish as a translation of the Hebrew name Zeev with the same meaning.