Hultz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly an altered spelling of Holtz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hultz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 486K(measured from records)
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 9.5K
- BZBelize≈1 in 69K
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)
- Sources
- 188 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.5K (inferred from the name graph)
685 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly an altered spelling of Holtz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hultz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 685 | 1 in 486K | 755 | Hultz | 188 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #260 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Hultz | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 594K | — | Hultz | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 428K | — | Hultz | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 992K | — | Hultz | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 121K | — | Hultz | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 261K | — | Hultz | 1 |
| BZ Belize | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Hultz | 1 |
685 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 2020. 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)
- George Hultzb. 1939USAmerican football player (born 1939)
- Don Hultzb. 1940USAmerican football player, wrestler
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 7 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 755 | #32,616 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 741 | #29,904 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 685 | #33,343 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Hultz mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly an altered spelling of Holtz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Hultz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 685 people named Hultz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hultz.
- How common is the name Hultz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 685 people named Hultz in 2010, about 1 in 486 thousand residents.
- How common is Hultz compared with other names?
- In Congo - Brazzaville, Hultz is the 260th most common surname of 1,875 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, “Hultz” — the 260th most common surname in Congo - Brazzaville. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.