Short form of WOLFGANG, WOLFRAM or other names containing the Germanicelementwulf meaning "wolf". It can also be simply from the German or English word.
Derived from the Germanicelementswulf meaning "wolf" and gang "path". Two famous bearers of this name were Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) and German novelist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832).