Tanzer

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Tanzer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: berufsbezogen: zu 'Tanz'/'Tänzer'; 308 Träger.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 574K(measured from records)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 120K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 135K

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.

United States (measured from records)

580 people, 2010

Sources
213 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 120K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

berufsbezogen: zu 'Tanz'/'Tänzer'; 308 Träger

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tanzer 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.

Where Tanzer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5801 in 574K730Tanzer213
AU Australia≈190 est.≈1 in 135K—Tanzer64
MA Morocco≈140 est.≈1 in 248K—Tanzer5
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 502K41Tanzer53
CA Canada≈120 est.≈1 in 308K—Tanzer29
IL Israel≈58 est.≈1 in 151K—Tanzer11
IE Ireland≈43 est.≈1 in 120K—Tanzer4
DK Denmark211 in 279K21——

580 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Tanzer is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Finland

    Also written Tänzer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Tänzer

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Tänzer

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Tänzer

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States

    Also written Tänzer

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Tänzer

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Egypt

    Also written Tänzer

35 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Tanzer 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 Turkish, Sarı altın renginde tan yeri.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)

  • In Turkish, Sarı altın rengindeki tan yeri.

    as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary, per-gender-row harvest)

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)

1850190019502000Johann Friedrich Tanzer, b. 1866Helen H. Tanzer, b. 1876Josef Tanzer, b. 1901Rudi Tanzer, b. 1908Kurt Tanzer, b. 1920Francisco Tanzer, b. 1921Noel Tanzer, b. 1931Logan McCree, b. 1977Andreas Tanzer, b. 1989Katharina Tanzer, b. 1995

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Tanzer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000730#30,264
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020649#36,981
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010580#38,214
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200241#57,456
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—21#22,175
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Tanzer mean?
Recorded meaning: berufsbezogen: zu 'Tanz'/'Tänzer'; 308 Träger
In which country does Tanzer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 580 people named Tanzer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tanzer.
How common is the name Tanzer?
In the United States, the national register counted 580 people named Tanzer in 2010, about 1 in 574 thousand residents.

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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, “Tanzer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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