The Hertz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,257 people carried this name — #7,788 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 69,400 people counted. That is up 4% from 4,097 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Hertz surname
A surname from German.
Borrowed from German Hertz.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Hertz» (French), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 308 people named Hertz.
25 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 29 départements, most often Moselle.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
37 people named Hertz live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 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 the Nordic population registers
456 people named Hertz are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Hertz in American newspapers,
1899–1924.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 36,098 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Hertz,
with a public archive behind them.
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Giovanni Gabriele Hertz d. 1738 · printer
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Jobus Hertz d. 1706 · printer
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Charles Hertz d. 1880 · historian
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Hugo Hertz d. 1901 · merchant
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Benjamin-Wolff Hertz d. 1788 · jeweler
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Leffmann Samson Hertz d. 1761 · banker
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Hertz.
- Herson 470 · U.S. census
- Hert 1,006 · U.S. census
- Hertel 4,395 · U.S. census
- Herter 818 · U.S. census
- Herth 190 · U.S. census
- Hertrich 192 · U.S. census
- Hertzog 2,261 · U.S. census
- Hervas 167 · U.S. census
- Hervey 2,900 · U.S. census
- Hervieux 249 · U.S. census
- Hery 189 · U.S. census
- Herz 1,612 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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