Falz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fold
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/falt͡s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Falz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 161K(inferred from the name graph)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 323K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 780K
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
- 52 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 161K (inferred from the name graph)
≈500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fold
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Falz 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 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Falz | 51 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 780K | — | Falz | 5 |
| US United States | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | listed | Falz | 52 |
| PL Poland | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Falz | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.7M | — | Falz | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Falz | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Falz 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.
In Maltese, false, fake, counterfeit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Aragonese, sickle
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)
- Leopold Falzb. 1868CZCzech chronicler and historian
- Egon Falzb. 1932DEGerman engraver and postage stamp designer
- Eberhard Falzb. 1935(1935-2011)
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #242,594 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Falz mean, and where does it come from?
- fold Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Falz?
- A machine transcription gives /falt͡s/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Falz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 499 people named Falz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled falz.
- How common is the name Falz?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1 people named Falz, about 1 in 11 million residents.
What do you want to know about Falz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/falzThe 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, “Falz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.