Walz

At the 2020 census, 6,969 Americans bore the surname Walz — 4,907th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 42,900.

By the numbers

People: 6,969
Rank: 4,907th
How common: 1 in 42,900
Per 100,000: 2.3

Where the name comes from

Origin German

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Walz

Tim Walz (born 1964)American politician
Marcus Cooper Walz (born 1994)Spanish kayaker
Carl E. Walz (born 1955)American astronaut
Gottlob Walz (1881–1943)diver

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

Surnames like Walz

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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.