Franz
11,053 people in the United States were counted with the surname Franz in the 2020 census, making it the 3,189th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,000.
By the numbers
- People
- 11,053
- Rank
- 3,189th
- How common
- 1 in 27,000
- Per 100,000
- 3.7
Where the name comes from
Origin German
From German Franz.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Franz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Franz
- Marie-Louise von Franz (1915–1998)Swiss psychologist and scholar
- Dennis Franz (born 1944)American actor
- Vladimír Franz (born 1959)Czech composer, painter, professor and university educator
- Raymond Franz (1922–2010)critic and former member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Frederick William Franz (1893–1992)American Watch Tower Society president
- Kurt Franz (1914–1998)SS officer, third commandant of Treblinka extermination camp
- Eduard Franz (1902–1983)American actor
- Max Franz (born 1989)Austrian alpine skier
People named Franz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Franz
Also a first name
Franz has been given to 2,864 American babies as a first name since 1889, peaking in 1963. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
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.