Maltz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jewish (Ashkenazic); metonymic occupational name from German Mali, Yiddish malts ‘malt’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmæɫts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maltz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 36Kas מלץ(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 428K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.1M
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 Maltz 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
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 428K (inferred from the name graph)
778 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled מלץ in IL Israel, US United States, ZA South Africa and 2 more.
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)
Jewish (Ashkenazic); metonymic occupational name from German Mali, Yiddish malts ‘malt’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maltz 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 | 778 | 1 in 428K | 839 | מלץ | 15 |
| IL Israel | 238as מלץ | 1 in 36K | 238 | מלץ | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 102 | 1 in 2.1M | 102 | — | 2 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | מלץ | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 40 | 1 in 1.1M | 40 | — | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 26as Meltz | 1 in 226K | 26 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | מלץ | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 405K | — | מלץ | 2 |
778 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling maltz. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
- Maxwell Maltzb. 1889USAmerican plastic surgeon, self-help author (1899 - 1975)
- Benjamin N. Maltzb. 1901USAmerican banker
- Albert Maltzb. 1908USAmerican writer (1908–1985)
- Wendy Maltzb. 1950USsex therapist
- Carlos Maltzb. 1962BRBrazilian drummer
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 839 | #27,128 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 789 | #31,440 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 778 | #30,139 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 102 | #62,416 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 40 | — |
| 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
- 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 Maltz mean, and where does it come from?
- Jewish (Ashkenazic); metonymic occupational name from German Mali, Yiddish malts ‘malt’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Maltz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmæɫts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Maltz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 778 people named Maltz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled מלץ.
- Where is Maltz most common?
- Maltz is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 428 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maltz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 778 people named Maltz in 2010, about 1 in 428 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/maltzThe 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, “Maltz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.