Katz
30,668 people in the United States were counted with the surname Katz in the 2020 census, making it the 1,122nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,746.
By the numbers
- People
- 30,668
- Rank
- 1,122nd
- How common
- 1 in 9,746
- Per 100,000
- 10.3
Where the name comes from
As a Jewish name generally explained as Hebrew כ"ץ, abbreviation of כֹּהֵן צֶדֶק.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Katz described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Katz
- Bernard Katz (1911–2003)German-British biophysicist
- Israel Katz (born 1955)Israeli politician, Minister of Defense of Israel
- Omri Katz (born 1976)American actor
- Maxim Katz (born 1984)Russian political and public figure
- Elias Katz (1901–1947)Finnish runner
- Alex Katz (born 1927)American painter and sculptor
- Phil Katz (1962–2000)American software developer, developer of the ZIP file format
- Chaim Katz (born 1947)Israeli politician
People named Katz with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Katz
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.