Buchholz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: person living by a beech wood or from a German place-name; also an invented Jewish name based on German Buchholz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈbəkhoʊɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Buchholz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 43K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 81K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 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)
person living by a beech wood or from a German place-name; also an invented Jewish name based on German Buchholz
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Buchholz is read(measured from records)
Buchholz 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.
- English56%
person living by a beech wood or from a German place-name; also an invented Jewish name based on German Buchholz
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German32%
Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature: from Buch- + -holz, ‘beech wood/woodland’; bearer count 18822.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
from Buch ‘beech’ + Holz ‘wood’; place- or terrain-based surname
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Toponymic surname; Typ [Buch]holz, 51 Types/18822 Tokens. Bearer counts in cluster include Buchhol(t)z 8977+276 and numerous variants.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Toponymic surname from a place/dwelling name.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Herkunfts-/Wohnstättenname zu Buchholz 'Buchenwald' (mhd. buoche, mnd. boke 'Buche'); zeigt dentale Variantschrift mit -holz/-hol(t)z. 9327 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
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)
Buchholz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #219 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Buchholz | 165 |
| US United States | — | 7,790 | 1 in 43K | 7.8K | Buchholz | 343 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 120K | — | Buchholz | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈820 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Buchholz | 60 |
| PL Poland | — | 784 | 1 in 49K | 412 | Buchholz | 2 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Buchholz | 1 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Buchholz | 4 |
| DK Denmark | — | 141 | 1 in 42K | 141 | Buchholz | 44 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Buchholz | 6 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- John Theodore Buchholzb. 1888USAmerican botanist (1888-1951)
- Werner Buchholzb. 1922USAmerican computer scientist (1922–2019)
- Horst Buchholzb. 1933DEGerman actor (1933–2003)
- Earl Buchholzb. 1940USAmerican tennis player
- Francis Buchholzb. 1954DEGerman bass guitarist (1954–2026)
- Christopher Buchholzb. 1962USGerman actor, film director and screenwriter
- Axel Buchholzb. 1965DEGerman actor
- Clay Buchholzb. 1984USAmerican professional baseball pitcher
- Aren BuchholzCACanadian actor
- Todd G. BuchholzGBAmerican economist
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 7.8K | #4,547 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 7.7K | #4,240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 7.6K | #4,550 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 412 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 412 | #8,020 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 372 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 372 | #8,727 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 141 | #3,827 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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)
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 Buchholz mean, and where does it come from?
- person living by a beech wood or from a German place-name; also an invented Jewish name based on German Buchholz Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Buchholz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbəkhoʊɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Buchholz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Buchholz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled buchholz.
- How common is the name Buchholz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,790 people named Buchholz in 2010, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Buchholz compared with other names?
- In Germany, Buchholz is the 219th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Buchholz” — the 219th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.