Kurtz

23,509 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kurtz in the 2020 census, making it the 1,479th most common in the country. That is about one person in 12,700.

By the numbers

People: 23,509
Rank: 1,479th
How common: 1 in 12,700
Per 100,000: 7.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Black, not Hispanic 1.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kurtz

Swoosie Kurtz (born 1944)American actress
Paul Kurtz (1925–2012)American professor of philosophy
Gary Kurtz (1940–2018)American film producer
Thomas E. Kurtz (1928–2024)American computer scientist and educator
Joseph Edward Kurtz (born 1946)Catholic archbishop
Frank Kurtz (1911–1996)Diver and Air Force officer
Oliver Kurtz (born 1971)German field hockey player
Katherine Kurtz (born 1944)American fantasy writer

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

Surnames like Kurtz

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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.