Markowitz

At the 2020 census, 4,331 Americans bore the surname Markowitz — 7,420th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 69,000.

By the numbers

People: 4,331
Rank: 7,420th
How common: 1 in 69,000
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

Jewish surname, variant of Markovich, Markowicz. The ending -owitz is Germanized from East sla endings like -ovich, Polish -owicz. Compare Marko, Markow, Markovitz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.1%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.09%

Notable people called Markowitz

Harry Markowitz (1927–2023)American economist

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

Surnames like Markowitz

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.