Goertz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably of Slavic origin, a habitational name from any of various places in eastern and northern Germany named Gortz or Gorz (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Goertz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 55K
- CACanada≈1 in 80K
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 Goertz 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 220 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Gørtz in DK Denmark.
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)probably of Slavic origin, a habitational name from any of various places in eastern and northern Germany named Gortz or Gorz.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Goertz is found
(measured from records)Goertz 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 | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Goertz | 120 |
| US United States | — | 1,437 | 1 in 231K | 1.5K | Goertz | 220 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Goertz | 66 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 312 | 1 in 55K | 312 | Goertz | 21 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Goertz | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 107as Gørtz | 1 in 55K | 107 | Gørtz | 24 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Goertz | 13 |
| ML Mali | #597 | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Goertz | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)- Albrecht von Goertzb. 1914DEGerman automobile designer (1914–2006)
- Christine Goertzb. 1941DEGerman politician
- Wolfram Goertzb. 1961DEGerman journalist
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Goertz mean, and where does it come from?
- probably of Slavic origin, a habitational name from any of various places in eastern and northern Germany named Gortz or Gorz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Goertz?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Goertz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goertz. After it come United States, Canada, Netherlands and Nigeria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Goertz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,437 people named Goertz in 2010, about 1 in 231 thousand residents.
- How common is Goertz compared with other names?
- In Mali, Goertz is the 597th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/goertzThe 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, “Goertz” — the 597th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.