Belz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Belz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 43K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 176K
- NONorway1 in 304K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Belz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 35 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
1,894 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Белз in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Belz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,894 | 1 in 176K | 2K | Belz | 25 |
| BR Brazil | 581 | 1 in 364K | 581 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 197 | 1 in 43K | 197 | — | 3 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 466K | — | Белз | 24 |
| PL Poland | 52 | 1 in 736K | 27 | Belz | 35 |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
1,894 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Belz is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Bălți (A city and municipality of Moldova.)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Anlautvarianz B/P; aus lat. pellicia > mhd. bel(lî)z, bellez, mnd. pels; Berufs- und Übername, evtl. auch zu Bald-/Belz-Namen. 2144 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname: Pelzverarbeiter/Fellhändler; Belege im Text nicht genannt.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Atlas plate on B/P variation in names with Blank/Bayer/Bauer etc.; includes Belz/Belzer/Pelz/Pelzer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname: zum Pelz-/Kürschnerbereich.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Basque, nonstandard form of beltz
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Johann Belzb. 1873DEGerman sculptor (1873-1957)
- Ewald Belzb. 1902DEGerman politician (1902-1978)
- Wilhelm Belzb. 1902DE(1902–1992)
- Johann Belzb. 1925DEGerman sculptor (1925-1976)
- Gustav Belzb. 1940DEGerman pharmacologist
- Christian Belzb. 1953BEeconomist from Germany
- Corinna Belzb. 1955DEGerman film director and actress
- Ulysses Belzb. 1958DEGerman painter and graphic artist
- Christian Belzb. 1974CHlong-distance runner
- Julie A. BelzUSresearcher
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)21 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,658 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,464 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.8K | #15,954 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 581 | #14,860 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 197 | #6,350 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,200 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #77,559 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 18 | #43,661 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- 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
- In which country does Belz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Belz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled belz.
- Where is Belz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Belz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 43 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Belz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,894 people named Belz in 2010, about 1 in 176 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Belz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/belzThe 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, “Belz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.