Harz

loc · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Harz is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: Toponymic surname from the Mittelgebirge Harz; bearer counts 837+920.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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)

Toponymic surname from the Mittelgebirge Harz; bearer counts 837+920.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Harz counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Harz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—248—7
BR Brazil—124——
PL Poland—40——
DK Denmark—16——
CL Chile—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 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Harz is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḥarz

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Harzen

34 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Harz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, resin

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Patronymisch zu Harto/Herto; Belegzahl 837+920. Variantencluster: Harz/Hartz.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In English, mtn. group, Germany

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, province, Saudi Arabia

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In English, Hasa, El [Al-Hasa]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

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)

18001850190019502000Carl Otto Harz, b. 1842Kurt Harz, b. 1858Kurt Harz, b. 1915Anne-Wil Harzing, b. 1965

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Harz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020248#82,069
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000244#73,931
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010224#83,834
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—124#53,746
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202640—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—40#58,143
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202628—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—28#72,657
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—16#27,653
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Harz mean, and where does it come from?
Toponymic surname from the Mittelgebirge Harz; bearer counts 837+920. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
In which country does Harz have the most bearers?
Harz is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harz

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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, “Harz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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