Holzer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Toponymic surname from a dwelling/place name referring to wood/trees (Baum- und Buschbestand); 3,995 bearers
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈhoʊɫzɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Holzer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. In Austria it is the 54th most common surname.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K
- USUnited States1 in 85K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 310 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Toponymic surname from a dwelling/place name referring to wood/trees (Baum- und Buschbestand); 3,995 bearers.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
Where in the world(measured from records)
Holzer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #704 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Holzer | 144 |
| AT Austria | #54 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Holzer | 112 |
| US United States | — | 3,911 | 1 in 85K | 3.9K | Holzer | 310 |
| CH Switzerland | #528 | 1,862 | 1 in 4.5K | 1.9K | Holzer | 60 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Holzer | 41 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Holzer | 1 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Holzer | 2 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Holzer is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Toponymic surname from a place name or dwelling/landscape feature; < SiedlungsN 825 Wolfratshausen (3,04‰), 766 Bruchsal (2,57‰), 787 Schramberg (2,35‰), 665 Neunkirchen (Saar) (1,65‰), 934 Cham (Oberpfalz).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte
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 Holzerb. 1753ATAustrian composer
- Hans Holzerb. 1920ATAmerican paranormal researcher (1920–2009)
- Jerzy Holzerb. 1930PLPolish historian (1930-2015)
- Adi Holzerb. 1936ATAustrian painter and sculptor (born 1936)
- Jane Holzerb. 1940USAmerican actress
- Sepp Holzerb. 1942ATAustrian farmer, permaculturist, and writer
- Harold Holzerb. 1949USAmerican scholar of Abraham Lincoln
- Jenny Holzerb. 1950USAmerican conceptual artist (born 1950)
- Georg Holzerb. 1957ATAustrian academic
- Marco Holzerb. 1988DEGerman racing driver
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.9K | #8,446 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.9K | #7,867 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.9K | #8,195 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.9K | #526 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Holzer mean, and where does it come from?
- Toponymic surname from a dwelling/place name referring to wood/trees (Baum- und Buschbestand); 3,995 bearers. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 4: Familiennamen nach Herkunft und Wohnstätte.
- How do you pronounce Holzer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhoʊɫzɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Holzer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Holzer in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled holzer.
- How common is the name Holzer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,911 people named Holzer in 2010, about 1 in 85 thousand residents.
- How common is Holzer compared with other names?
- In Germany, Holzer is the 704th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/holzerThe 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, “Holzer” — the 704th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.