Wolz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Kurzform zu Walt[hari] mit -z-Suffix; o-Vokalvariante durch Verdumpfung
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈwoʊɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wolz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 438K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 35K
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.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)Kurzform zu Walt[hari] mit -z-Suffix; o-Vokalvariante durch Verdumpfung. Belegt mit 929 Trägern.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wolz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Wolz | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 44K | listed | Wolz | 99 |
| US United States | 759 | 1 in 438K | 828 | Wolz | 196 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Wolz | 1 |
| GH Ghana | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 151K | — | Wolz | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 88K | — | Wolz | 11 |
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 2020; 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)Wolz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Walter-Variante mit o-Vokal; 929 Träger. Karte zeigt die o-Form im Vokalwechsel Walter → Wolz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In German, Konkurrenz: Herkunftsname zu Wolz; diminutive/hypokoristische Form with -z/-tz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In Luxembourgish, Wiltz (a town and commune, the capital city of Wiltz canton, in northwestern Luxembourg)
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)- Paul Wolzb. 1894DEGerman theatre director
- Alwin Wolzb. 1897DEGerman General and Knight's Cross recipients (1897–1978)
- Else Wolzb. 1908DEGerman actor, stage actor and film actor (1908-1983)
- Christian Wolzb. 1967DEGerman artist
- Alexander Wolzb. 1991DEGerman cross-country skier
- Dietmar WolzDEDr.-Ing. Technische Universität Berlin 1998
- Ines WolzDEresearcher
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 828 | #30,247 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 789 | #28,460 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 759 | #30,701 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Wolz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwoʊɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Wolz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Kurzform zu Walt[hari] mit -z-Suffix; o-Vokalvariante durch Verdumpfung.
- In which country does Wolz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Wolz in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wolz.
- How common is the name Wolz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 759 people named Wolz in 2010, about 1 in 438 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wolzThe 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, “Wolz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.