[name] Vuk (Вук) is a South Slavic male given name, predominantly recorded among the Serbs. The name literally means `wolf`. Vuk Karadžić, 19th-century Serbian philologist and ethnographer, explained the traditional, apotropaic use of the name: a woman who had lost several babies in succession, would name her newborn son Vuk, because i... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuk_(name)