Wentz

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Wentz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 43K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 80K

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)

8,376 people, 2010

Sources
335 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Jamaica, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Wentz 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 Wentz is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,3761 in 40K8.4KWentz335
BR Brazil—1,5941 in 133K1.6K—1
GB United Kingdom—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 43K6Wentz37
KP North Korea—≈1,400 est.≈1 in 18K—Wentz2
DE Germany—≈1,000 est.≈1 in 80K—Wentz67
JM Jamaica#171≈260 est.≈1 in 11K—Wentz1
LY Libya—≈200 est.≈1 in 34K—Wentz1
IE Ireland—≈150 est.≈1 in 34K—Wentz8

8,376 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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)

190019502000Barney Wentz, b. 1901Janet Wentz, b. 1937Earl Wentz, b. 1938Myron W. Wentz, b. 1940Siegfried Wentz, b. 1960Pete Wentz, b. 1979Eiji Wentz, b. 1985Carson Wentz, b. 1992Joey Wentz, b. 1997

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 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Wentz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020008.4K#3,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020108.4K#4,231
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020208K#4,319
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.6K#6,004
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)20026#203,151
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

In which country does Wentz have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.4 thousand people named Wentz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wentz.
How common is the name Wentz?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,376 people named Wentz in 2010, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
How common is Wentz compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Wentz is the 171st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Wentz” — the 171st most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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