Schultze
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: ‘village headman’; also an invented Jewish name based on that, perhaps relating to a rabbi as community head
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈʃəɫtz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Schultze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 162K
- UYUruguay1 in 34K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 235 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘village headman’; also an invented Jewish name based on that, perhaps relating to a rabbi as community head
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
How Schultze is read(measured from records)
Schultze is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English53%
‘village headman’; also an invented Jewish name based on that, perhaps relating to a rabbi as community head
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- German33%
Nebenform zu Schulze; die Schreibungen schwanken in der Dentale (tztz/z), Bearer-Anteil 8% : 92%.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Varianz tz/z; Konsonantismus mit -tz/-z-Schreibung. Belegt Schultze und Schulze.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Berufsname für den Dorfschulzen/Ortsvorsteher; erweiterte Form von Schulz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Schultze 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #924 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Schultze | 150 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Schultze | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,053 | 1 in 162K | 2.3K | Schultze | 235 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Schultze | 2 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Schultze | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 101 | 1 in 34K | 101 | Schultze | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 89 | 1 in 94K | 89 | Schultze | 18 |
| NO Norway | — | 82 | 1 in 67K | 82 | Schultze | 9 |
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 2020; the dfa-band-1 register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Max Schultzeb. 1825DEGerman microscopic anatomist and phycologist (1825–1874)
- Bernhard Sigmund Schultzeb. 1827DEGerman gynaecologist (1827–1919)
- Leonhard Schultzeb. 1872DEGerman anthropologist and zoologist (1872-1955)
- Ivan Fedorovich Choultséb. 1874FRnot in their usual nameRussian artist, 1877- (1874–1939)
- Otto Schultzeb. 1884DEGeneraladmiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II (1884–1966)
- Herbert Schultzeb. 1909DEGerman Navy Officer and World War II U-boat commander
- Heinz-Otto Schultzeb. 1915DEGerman World War II U-boat commander
- Charles Schultzeb. 1924USAmerican government official (1924–2016)
- Waldemar Schultzb. 1970ZAnot in their usual nameSouth African actor
- Sven Schultzeb. 1978DEGerman basketball player (born 1978)
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 31 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,677 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.1K | #14,523 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 101 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 89 | #12,103 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82 | #18,136 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 2 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Schultze mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘village headman’; also an invented Jewish name based on that, perhaps relating to a rabbi as community head Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Schultze?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃəɫtz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Schultze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Schultze in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled schultze.
- How common is the name Schultze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,053 people named Schultze in 2010, about 1 in 162 thousand residents.
- How common is Schultze compared with other names?
- In Germany, Schultze is the 924th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/schultzeThe 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, “Schultze” — the 924th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.