Benz

At the 2020 census, 5,710 Americans bore the surname Benz — 5,837th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 52,300.

By the numbers

People: 5,710
Rank: 5,837th
How common: 1 in 52,300
Per 100,000: 1.9

Where the name comes from

Origin German

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Benz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.2%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Benz

Carl Benz (1844–1929)German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer
Julie Benz (born 1972)American actress
Bertha Benz (1849–1944)German automobile pioneer, with husband Karl Benz
Nikki Benz (born 1981)Ukrainian-Canadian/American pornographic actress
Joseph Benz (1944–2021)bobsledder
Wolfgang Benz (born 1941)German historian
Bethany Benz (born 1986)American-Ukrainian pornographic actress, reality show participant and model

People named Benz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Benz

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.