The Wolters Last Name

The name Wolters is closely linked to Wolter. Name scholars give the meaning as “Ruler of the army”. Wolters adds a patronymic ending to Wolter, meaning ‘son of’ or ‘of the family of’. Other spellings include Wolther, Wouterse and Wohler.

In the 2010 US Census, 3,773 Americans gave Wolters as their last name (rank 8,700). It sits among the 10,000 most common last names in the country. French civil records give 115 births under the name Wolters from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1971–1980. Births ran at 5 in 1891–1900 and 13 in 1991–2000.

Arms linked to Wolter and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. For the full story, order the Wolters surname pack.