Milz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for a cantankerous individual, from Middle High German milz(e) ‘spleen’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɪɫz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Milz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 99K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 174K
- USUnited States1 in 712K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 4 (measured from records)
- 1 in 99K (inferred from the name graph)
467 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for a cantankerous individual, from Middle High German milz(e) ‘spleen’. According to medieval theory of humors, an excess of bile from the spleen was responsible for ill temper.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Milz 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 | 467 | 1 in 712K | 507 | Milz | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | 85 | 1 in 99K | 85 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 32 | 1 in 174K | 32 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 23 | 1 in 1.7M | 13 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 13 | 1 in 785K | 13 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 5 | 1 in 1.2M | 5 | — | — |
467 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Milz is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, splenetic individual, from Ger. Milz spleen (MHG milz(e), OHG milza). According to medieval theory of humours, an excess of bile from the spleen was responsible for ill temper. 2. habitation name from a place so called in Thuringia. Var.: Miltz.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In German, habitational name from a place so named in Thuringia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, from a personal name of uncertain etymology.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, spleen
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)
- Johann Heinrich Milzb. 1763DEGerman priest
- Heinrich Milzb. 1830DEGerman teacher (1830–1909)
- Heinrich Karl Nikolaus Milzb. 1881(1881-1957)
- Gerhard Milzb. 1910DEGerman painter
- Joseph Milzb. 1934DEGerman archaeologist, medievalist and archivist (1934-2013)
- Helmut Milzb. 1949DEGerman physician, public health consultant and non-fiction writer
- Annette Milzb. 1961DEGerman journalist
- Andrea Milzb. 1963DEGerman politician
- Julia Milzb. 1987ATAustrian association football player
- Stefan MilzDEresearcher
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 507 | #45,457 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 467 | #45,740 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 434 | #46,240 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 85 | #12,519 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,189 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,164 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 13 | #33,159 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 10 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 10 | #136,250 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 5 | #60,107 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Milz come from?
- nickname for a cantankerous individual, from Middle High German milz(e) ‘spleen’. According to medieval theory of humors, an excess of bile from the spleen was responsible for ill temper. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Milz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɪɫz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Milz mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname for a cantankerous individual, from Middle High German milz(e) ‘spleen’.
- In which country does Milz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 467 people named Milz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled milz.
- Where is Milz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Milz is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 99 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Milz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 467 people named Milz in 2010, about 1 in 712 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/milzThe 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, “Milz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.