Latz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a short form of the Slavic personal name (W)ladislaw (see Laszlo)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫæts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Latz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 619K
- AOAngola≈1 in 46K
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 Latz 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
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
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 Laetz in SO Somalia.
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)
from a short form of the Slavic personal name (W)ladislaw (see Laszlo).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Latz 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.
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. 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)
Latz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, bib (item of clothing for babies)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname: zu mhd. laz 'Band; Schnürstück am Gewand, Hosenlatz'; 3+820 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Basque, ‘rough, harsh’
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Jean-Pierre Latzb. 1691FRFrench cabinetmaker of German origin (1691–1754)
- Albert Latzb. 1855DEGerman entrepreneur (1855–1923)
- Heinrich Latzb. 1912DEGerman architect (1912-1989)
- Peter Latzb. 1939DEGerman landscape architect
- Irmgard Latzb. 1939DEGerman badminton player
- Peter K. Latzb. 1941AUAustralian agrostologist and botanist
- Helmut Latzb. 1955DEGerman rower
- Ron Latzb. 1963USAmerican politician
- Grace Latzb. 1988USAmerican rower
- Jake Latzb. 1996USAmerican baseball player
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 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 729 | #30,292 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 689 | #35,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 537 | #40,672 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Latz mean, and where does it come from?
- from a short form of the Slavic personal name (W)ladislaw (see Laszlo). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Latz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫæts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Latz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Latz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled latz.
- How common is the name Latz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 537 people named Latz in 2010, about 1 in 619 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/latzThe 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, “Latz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.