Wurtz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈwɝts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wurtz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 58K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 141K
- DKDenmark1 in 5.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wurtz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,800 named Wuertz, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Würtz in DE Germany and Wuertz in BZ Belize.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wurtz 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 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Wurtz | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Wurtz | 1 |
| US United States | 2,357 | 1 in 141K | 2.6K | Wurtz | 289 |
| FR France | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 257 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 58K | listed | Würtz | 55 |
| DK Denmark | 1,109 | 1 in 5.3K | 1.1K | — | 4 |
| BZ Belize | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Wuertz | 1 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Charles Adolphe Wurtzb. 1817FRFrench chemist (1817–1884)
- Robert Théodore Wurtzb. 1858FRFrench physician
- Suzanne Wurtzb. 1900FRFrench swimmer (1900-1982)
- Marceline Wurtzb. 1909FRFrench swimmer (1909-1927)
- Robert H. Wurtzb. 1936USAmerican neuroscientist
- Robert Wurtzb. 1941FRFrench football referee (born 1941)
- Karen Wurtzb. 1977badminton player
- Bill Wurtzb. 1989USmusician and video creator
- Taylor Wurtzb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
- Johannes Wurtzb. 1992DEGerman footballer
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)
Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.6K | #11,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.5K | #11,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #13,029 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 421 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 411 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 313 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 312 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 305 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 292 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 285 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 257 | — |
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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Wurtz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈwɝts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Wurtz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.8 thousand people named Wuertz in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wurtz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wurtz is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 5.3 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wurtz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,357 people named Wurtz in 2010, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wurtz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wurtzThe 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, “Wurtz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.