Lorenz

Lorenz is the 2,530th most common surname in the United States, shared by 13,913 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 21,500.

By the numbers

People: 13,913
Rank: 2,530th
How common: 1 in 21,500
Per 100,000: 4.7

Where the name comes from

Origin German

From Latin Laurentius.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 4.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Lorenz

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973
Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008)American mathematician and meteorologist
Flake Lorenz (born 1966)German keyboardist
Ludvig Lorenz (1829–1891)Danish mathematician and physicist
Max Lorenz (1939–2025)German footballer
Dietmar Lorenz (1950–2021)East German judoka
Werner Lorenz (1891–1974)German general
Carl Lorenz (1913–1993)Olympic cyclist

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

Surnames like Lorenz

Also a first name

Lorenz has been given to 1,754 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1918. 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.