Horovitz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: person from Horovice, Bohemia; a derivative of Slavic gora ‘hill’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhɑɹəvɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horovitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 96th most common surname.
- ILIsrael1 in 2.4Kas הורוביץ(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 3.8Kas Horowitz
- USUnited States1 in 34Kas Horowitz
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 Horovitz 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)
9,671 named Horowitz, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Horowitz in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 3 more and הורוביץ in IL Israel, LB Lebanon, HU Hungary.
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 from Horovice, Bohemia; a derivative of Slavic gora ‘hill’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horovitz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 9,671as Horowitz | 1 in 34K | 9.7K | Horowitz | 407 |
| RO Romania | #227 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Horowitz | 7 |
| IL Israel | #96 | 3,557as הורוביץ | 1 in 2.4K | 3.6K | הורוביץ | 61 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | listed | Horowitz | 77 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Horowitz | 101 |
| LB Lebanon | #569 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | הורוביץ | 3 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Horovitz | 6 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | הורוביץ | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Horowitz | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 17 | 1 in 494K | 17 | Horowitz | 15 |
9,671 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Horovitz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Israel Arthur, US playwright
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)
- Josef Horovitzb. 1874DEGerman Orientalist
- Stephanie Horovitzb. 1887PLPolish chemist
- Béla Horovitzb. 1898HUHungarian publisher (1898–1955)
- Joseph Horovitzb. 1926GBBritish composer (1926–2022)
- Michael Horovitzb. 1935GBEnglish poet, artist and translator (1935-2021)
- Frances Horovitzb. 1938GBBritish poet (1938-1983)
- Israel Horovitzb. 1939USAmerican writer (1939–2020)
- David Horovitzb. 1962GBIsraeli journalist (born 1962)
- Ad-Rockb. 1966USnot in their usual nameAmerican rapper, guitarist, and actor (born 1966)
- Adam Horovitzb. 1971British poet
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 404 | #54,978 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 278 | #70,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 225 | #78,838 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 17 | #41,155 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Horovitz mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Horovice, Bohemia; a derivative of Slavic gora ‘hill’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Horovitz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɹəvɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Horovitz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.7 thousand people named Horowitz, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Horovitz?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 17 people named Horovitz in 2024, about 1 in 494 thousand residents.
- How common is Horovitz compared with other names?
- In Israel, Horovitz is the 96th most common surname of 325,634 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/horovitzThe 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, “Horovitz” — the 96th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.