Schlitz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: slit, slash
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃɫɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schlitz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- AUAustralia
- DEGermany
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
slit, slash
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Schlitz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from a place name in Hesse
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In hrx, slit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Carl Heinrich von Schlitz genannt von Görtzb. 1752DE2 Nov 1752 - 10 Dec 1826 Schlitz
- Wilhelm von Goertzb. 1793DEnot in their usual name15 Feb 1793 Frankfurt am Main - 31 Dec 1839 Schlitz
- Joseph Schlitzb. 1831USAmerican businessman
- Carl Schlitzb. 1850German Jesuit
- George Schlitzb. 1909AUAustralian rules footballer
- Henri Schlitzb. 1930BEBelgian politician (1930–2002)
- Don Schlitzb. 1952USAmerican country singer-songwriter (1952-2026)
- Laura Amy Schlitzb. 1955USchildren's author
- Ben Lars Schlitzb. 1971DEGerman journalist and researcher
- Sarah Schlitzb. 1986BEBelgian politician
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 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 416 | #53,634 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 404 | #48,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 357 | #57,101 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 14 | #58,783 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #217,957 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Schlitz mean, and where does it come from?
- slit, slash Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schlitz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃɫɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schlitz have the most bearers?
- Schlitz is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Schlitz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schlitzThe 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, “Schlitz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.