Bolz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name for a weapon maker; from bolt/quarrel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bɔlt͡s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bolz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 320K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 36K
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
- 249 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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(measured from records)
occupational name for a weapon maker; from bolt/quarrel
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bolz 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 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 155K | — | Bolz | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bolz | 134 |
| US United States | 1,039 | 1 in 320K | 1.1K | Bolz | 249 |
| CH Switzerland | 236 | 1 in 36K | 236 | Bolz | 27 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Bolz | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | 30 | 1 in 113K | 30 | Bolz | 7 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 2 |
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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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)
Bolz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, also a place name
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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)
- Martin Hermann Bolzb. 1868EEBaltic German physician and amateur archeologist (1868-1917)
- Eugen Bolzb. 1881DEGerman politician (1881-1945)
- Hans Bolzb. 1885DEGerman expressionist and cubist painter (1885-1918)
- Lothar Bolzb. 1903PLGerman politician (1903-1986)
- Walter Bolzb. 1906DEGerman film producer (1906–1953)
- Harriet Bolzb. 1909USAmerican composer
- Norbert Bolzb. 1953DEGerman philosopher
- Kate Bolzb. 1979USAmerican politician
- Joseph Bolzb. 1984DEGerman actor
- Testob. 1988DEnot in their usual nameGerman rapper
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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,887 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #22,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,186 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 236 | #5,435 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 30 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 28 | #35,997 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- What does the name Bolz mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name for a weapon maker; from bolt/quarrel Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bolz?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔlt͡s/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Bolz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Bolz in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bolz.
- How common is the name Bolz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,039 people named Bolz in 2010, about 1 in 320 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bolzThe 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, “Bolz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.