Weitz
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Weitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. weiӡ(e), mnd.
- ILIsrael1 in 30Kas וייץ(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 106K
- FIFinland1 in 174K
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 Weitz 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 106K (inferred from the name graph)
3,141 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled וייץ in IL Israel, PL Poland, LV Latvia.
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)
Berufsname zu mhd. weiӡ(e), mnd. wete 'Weizen'; Bauer; 204+1453 Belege.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Weitz 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.
3,141 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Weitz 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, Berufsname: wohl zu Weizenbauern/Weizenhandel; 1904 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
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)
- Josef Weitzb. 1890ILIsraeli civil servant (1890–1972)
- Morris Weitzb. 1916USAmerican philosopher (1916-1981)
- John Weitzb. 1923USAmerican menswear designer (1923-2002)
- Paul Weitzb. 1932USAmerican astronaut (1932–2017)
- Bruce Weitzb. 1943USAmerican actor
- Eduard Weitzb. 1946ILIsraeli weightlifter
- Eric D. Weitzb. 1953American historian
- Kristine Wb. 1962USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer-songwriter
- Paul Weitzb. 1965USAmerican filmmaker
- Chris Weitzb. 1969USAmerican film director (born 1969)
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.1K | #10,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3K | #9,801 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.8K | #10,804 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 67 | #85,160 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 59 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 59 | #45,077 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 46 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 46 | #53,061 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 32 | #33,545 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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 Weitz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Berufsname zu mhd. weiӡ(e), mnd.
- In which country does Weitz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.1 thousand people named Weitz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled weitz.
- Where is Weitz most common?
- Weitz is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 106 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Weitz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,141 people named Weitz in 2010, about 1 in 106 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/weitzThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Weitz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.