Goltz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name or occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from German Holz ‘wood’, altered under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɡoʊɫts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goltz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 260K
- JOJordan≈1 in 25K
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 Goltz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 234 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jordan, 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 Goeltz in CD Congo - Kinshasa.
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)
ornamental name or occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from German Holz ‘wood’, altered under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goltz 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 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Goltz | 90 |
| US United States | 1,277 | 1 in 260K | 1.3K | Goltz | 234 |
| BR Brazil | 534 | 1 in 396K | 534 | — | 1 |
| JO Jordan | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Goltz | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Goeltz | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Goltz | 47 |
| AU Australia | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Goltz | 66 |
| FI Finland | 53 | 1 in 105K | 53 | — | 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Goltz 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.
habitational name for someone from Golz or Golssen in eastern Germany, place names that may derive from Slavic gola ‘heath’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In gme-cgo, gold
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)
- August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltzb. 1765DEPrussian politician (1765-1832)
- Friedrich Goltzb. 1834PLGerman physiologist (1834–1902)
- Colmar Freiherr von der Goltzb. 1843RUField marshal and military writer (1843-1916)
- Albert Graf von der Goltzb. 1893PLGerman Oberst der Reserve (Colonel of the Reserves) during World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves (1893-1944)
- Christel Goltzb. 1912DEsinger (1912–2008)
- Boris Goltzb. 1913UZSoviet composer (1913-1942)
- Dave Goltzb. 1949USAmerican baseball player
- Thomas Goltzb. 1954USAmerican writer (1954–2023)
- Glenn Goltzb. 1971DEGerman film actor and stage actor
- Paolo Goltzb. 1985ARArgentine footballer
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.3K | #18,857 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,709 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 534 | #16,063 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 53 | #21,503 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 28 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
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 Goltz mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name or occupational name for a woodcutter or someone who sold wood, from German Holz ‘wood’, altered under Russian influence, since Russian has no h and alters h in borrowed words to g. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Goltz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡoʊɫts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Goltz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Goltz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goltz.
- How common is the name Goltz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,277 people named Goltz in 2010, about 1 in 260 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/goltzThe 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, “Goltz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.