Schmaltz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Rendered chicken or goose fat
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃmɑɫts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schmaltz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CACanada
- USUnited States
- FRFrance
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)
Rendered chicken or goose fat.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julien-Désiré Schmaltzb. 1771FRFrench colonial administrator (1771-1827)
- Christian von Schmaltzb. 1787DEBavarian officer, Greek minister of war (1787-1865)
- Reinhold Schmaltzb. 1860DEGerman veterinarian and university teacher (1860-1945)
- Gustav Schmaltzb. 1884DEGerman psychotherapist (1884-1959)
- Bernhard Schmaltzb. 1941DEGerman art historian and archaeologist
- Roland Schmaltzb. 1974DEGerman chess player
- Jordan Schmaltzb. 1993USAmerican ice hockey player
- Nick Schmaltzb. 1996USAmerican ice hockey player
- Valérie SchmaltzCACanadian politician
- Kathy SchmaltzUSAmerican politician from Michigan
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 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,581 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,430 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,511 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 240 | #31,666 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 76 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 73 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 67 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 61 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 58 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 49 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 47 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Schmaltz mean, and where does it come from?
- Rendered chicken or goose fat. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Schmaltz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃmɑɫts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schmaltz have the most bearers?
- Schmaltz is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schmaltzThe 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, “Schmaltz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.