Tanz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nd. dans; includes dance-related and byname forms
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/tan(t)s/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Tanz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Benin than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 2.9M
- BRBrazil1 in 11M
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.
- Benin (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 119 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈290 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Benin, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nd. dans; includes dance-related and byname forms
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tanz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJ Benin | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Tanz | 1 |
| US United States | 169 | 1 in 2M | 177 | Tanz | 119 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 887K | — | Tanz | 19 |
| GH Ghana | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Tanz | 5 |
| IT Italy | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Tanz | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 983K | — | Tanz | 14 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 253K | — | Tanz | 1 |
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 2000. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Tanz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, dance
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German
In German, berufsbezogen: zu 'Tanz'/'Tänzer'; 290 Träger
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Übername zum Tanzenden/Tanzfreudigen; 290 Belege (Tan(t)z 256+34).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, from a nickname meaning 'dance'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In och, Pit, puddle
as a wordSchuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
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)- Sandra TanzAUresearcher
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 177 | #95,567 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 171 | #109,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 169 | #105,600 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Tanz mean, and where does it come from?
- nd. dans; includes dance-related and byname forms Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Tanz?
- It depends on the language: in German /tan(t)s/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /tans/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Tanz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 294 people named Tanz in Benin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanz.
- How common is the name Tanz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 169 people named Tanz in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million 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/tanzThe 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, “Tanz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.