Velz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bels/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Velz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 111K(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 592K
- COColombia≈1 in 607K
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
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 111K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Velz 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 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 705K | — | Velz | 29 |
| BE Belgium | 106 | 1 in 111K | 106 | Velz | 12 |
| BR Brazil | 85 | 1 in 2.5M | 85 | Velz | 19 |
| CO Colombia | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 607K | — | Velz | 13 |
| US United States | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 4.7M | listed | Velz | 62 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 592K | — | Velz | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 647K | — | Velz | 4 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 106 | #14,864 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 85 | #71,518 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Velz?
- A machine transcription gives /bels/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Velz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 114 people named Velz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled velz.
- Where is Velz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Velz is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 111 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Velz?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 106 people named Velz in 2008, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Velz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/velzThe 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, “Velz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.