Ritz

Ritz is the 5,582nd most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,010 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,700.

By the numbers

People: 6,010
Rank: 5,582nd
How common: 1 in 49,700
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, from the personal name Rizo, partially from Richard and partially from Heinrich. Also shortened from Moritz.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 5.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Ritz

Cäsar Johann Ritz (1850–1918)Swiss hotelier
Walther Ritz (1878–1909)Swiss physicist

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

Surnames like Ritz

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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.