Hertz

Hertz is the 7,929th most common surname in the United States, shared by 4,013 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 74,500.

By the numbers

People: 4,013
Rank: 7,929th
How common: 1 in 74,500
Per 100,000: 1.3

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 Hertz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Hertz

Heinrich Hertz (1857–1894)German physicist
Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975)German physicist
Robert Hertz (1881–1915)French sociologist
Noreena Hertz (born 1967)British economist and author
Henrik Hertz (1797–1870)Danish poet
Carl Hellmuth Hertz (1920–1990)German physicist
John D. Hertz (1879–1961)American businessman
Martin Hertz (1818–1895)German classical philologist

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

Surnames like Hertz

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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.