Pomeranz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from 'bitter orange' (Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/pomeɾans/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Pomeranz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Pomeranz is also written פומרנץ in Hebrew.
- FIFinland1 in 186K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 419K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 646K
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 Pomeranz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
1,883 named Pomerantz, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pomeranz in other scripts: Latin and Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pomerantz in US United States, AR Argentina, GB United Kingdom and 3 more and פומרנץ in IL Israel.
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.
How to pronounce Pomeranz
- Spanish:/pomeɾans/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from 'bitter orange'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pomeranz is found
(measured from records)Pomeranz 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 | 1,883as Pomerantz | 1 in 177K | 1.9K | Pomerantz | 303 |
| IL Israel | 680as פומרנץ | 1 in 13K | 680 | פומרנץ | 32 |
| CA Canada | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Pomerantz | 47 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 294K | 37 | Pomerantz | 32 |
| AR Argentina | 109as Pomerantz | 1 in 417K | 109 | Pomerantz | 30 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Pomerantz | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Pomerantz | 1 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
1,883 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"); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Margaret Pomeranzb. 1944AUAustralian film critic
- David Pomeranzb. 1951USAmerican musician
- Drew Pomeranzb. 1988USAmerican baseball player (born 1988)
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pomeranz mean, and where does it come from?
- from 'bitter orange' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Pomeranz?
- In Spanish /pomeɾans/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pomeranz?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Pomerantz, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Israel, Canada, United Kingdom and Argentina; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Pomeranz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pomeranz is densest in Finland — about 1 in 186 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pomeranz?
- In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Pomeranz, about 1 in 186 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/pomeranzThe 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, “Pomeranz” — ranked 14646th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.