Lorenz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from German of Latin origin
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ləɹɛnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lorenz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 63rd most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 4.2K
- USUnited States1 in 23K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈87,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of LAURENZz. Lothar $ Germanic ‘fame army’; a Frankish royal name.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lorenz is read(measured from records)
Lorenz is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English52%
A surname from German of Latin origin.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German35%
a male given name, equivalent to English Laurence
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronym zu lat. Rufname Laurentius; aus dem röm. Beinamen ‘der aus Laurentum Stammende’, christlich gedeutet als Bezug zu laurum ‘Lorbeerkranz/Märtyrerkrone’. 30 Types/28032 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Laurentius/Lorenz; keine Bearerzahl auf dieser Seite.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lorenz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈87,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Lorenz | 12 |
| DE Germany | #63 | ≈55,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Lorenz | 217 |
| US United States | — | 14,528 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Lorenz | 367 |
| AT Austria | #246 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 7.4K | Lorenz | 111 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Lorenz | 104 |
| CH Switzerland | #767 | 1,212 | 1 in 6.9K | 1.2K | Lorenz | 91 |
| LI Liechtenstein | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 11 | — | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lorenz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Variant of LAURENZz. Lothar $ Germanic ‘fame army’; a Frankish royal name.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
from a vernacular form (German Laurenz, Dutch Laurens, Catalan Loreng) of the Latin personal name Laurentius (see Lawrence). As a Jewish surname, it is probably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Ashkenazic names.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ludvig Lorenzb. 1829DKDanish mathematician and physicist (1829-1891)
- Max Otto Lorenzb. 1876USAmerican economist (1876–1959)
- Werner Lorenzb. 1891PLGerman general (1891-1974)
- Konrad Zacharias Lorenzb. 1903ATAustrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
- Edward Norton Lorenzb. 1917USAmerican mathematician and meteorologist (1917–2008)
- Max Lorenzb. 1939DEGerman footballer (1939–2025)
- Juliane Lorenzb. 1957DEGerman film editor and film director
- Christian Lorenzb. 1966DEGerman keyboardist
- Trey Lorenzb. 1969USAmerican singer
- Robert Lorenzb. 2000USAmerican film director and producer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 84 sources across 42 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 7.4K | #32 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.2K | #10,783 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 248 | #33 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 48 | #10,783 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Lorenz come from?
- Variant of LAURENZz. Lothar $ Germanic ‘fame army’; a Frankish royal name. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Lorenz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 87 thousand people named Lorenz in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lorenz.
- What are other forms of the name Lorenz?
- In the etymology graph, Lau, Larkin and Lourenço are forms of the same name in other languages; Lenz is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Lorenz?
- A machine transcription gives /ləɹɛnz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Lorenz mean?
- In English, A surname from German of Latin origin.
- How common is the name Lorenz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,528 people named Lorenz in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Lorenz compared with other names?
- In Germany, Lorenz is the 63rd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lorenzThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lorenz” — the 63rd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.