The Baz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 568 people carried this name — #38,850 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 36% from 419 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 603 people named Baz live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Misiones.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 100 people named Baz.
42 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 7 départements, most often Haute-Savoie.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
44 people named Baz live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 25 people named Baz live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
23 people named Baz is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Baz,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gustavo Baz Prada 1894–1987 · military personnel -
Ignacio Baz 1826–1887 · painter
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Gustavo Adolfo Baz 1852–1904 · writer
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Emilio Baz Viaud 1918–1991 · painter
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Danny Baz 1952– · military personnel
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Avner Baz 1964– · university teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Baz.
- Bayo 294 · U.S. census
- Bayon 526 · U.S. census
- Bayona 1,219 · U.S. census
- Bayonne 247 · U.S. census
- Bayot 314 · U.S. census
- Bayram 323 · U.S. census
- Bazan 8,104 · U.S. census
- Baze 1,506 · U.S. census
- Bazil 615 · U.S. census
- Bazile 2,491 · U.S. census
- Bazille 199 · U.S. census
- Bazin 406 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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