Waltz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Waltz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
- USUnited States1 in 49K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 62K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 67K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 341 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈50,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Waeltz in DZ Algeria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Waltz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈50,000 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Waltz | 4 |
| US United States | 6,819 | 1 in 49K | 6.8K | Waltz | 341 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 16 | Waltz | 32 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Waeltz | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 126K | listed | Waltz | 59 |
| CA Canada | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Waltz | 44 |
| JO Jordan | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Waltz | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Waltz | 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); the dfa-band-1 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Waltz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, waltz (dance)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Jean-Jacques Waltzb. 1873FRFrench cartoonist (1873-1951)
- Johann Waltzb. 1922DE(1922-1964)
- Kenneth Waltzb. 1924USAmerican political scientist and international relations theoretician (1924-2013)
- David Waltzb. 1943UScomputer scientist (1943–2012)
- Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltzb. 1952PLPolish politician
- Christoph Waltzb. 1956ATAustrian and German actor
- Lisa Waltzb. 1961USAmerican actress
- Jeanne Waltzb. 1962CHSwiss cineast and screenwriter
- Sasha Waltzb. 1963DEGerman choreographer and dancer
- Mike Waltzb. 1974USU.S. Ambassador to the United Nations since 2025
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 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.8K | #5,131 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.6K | #4,884 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.3K | #5,325 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 16 | #104,899 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Waltz mean, and where does it come from?
- A ballroom dance in 3/4 time. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Waltz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 50 thousand people named Waltz in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waltz.
- How common is the name Waltz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,819 people named Waltz in 2010, about 1 in 49 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waltzThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Waltz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.