The Waltz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 6,819 people carried this name — #5,131 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 43,300 people counted. That is up 3% from 6,602 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Waltz surname
A male surname from German.
Unadapted borrowing from German Waltz.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Waltz» (Polish), 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 296 people named Waltz.
13 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 19 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
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
28 people named Waltz live in Switzerland.
They live in 3 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Stadt.
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 print
Waltz in American newspapers,
1883–1913.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 332,195 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Waltz,
with a public archive behind them.
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Gustavus Waltz 1732–1759 · composer -
Gustavus Waltz 1732–1759 · composer
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Jean-Jacques Waltz 1873–1951 · writer -
Christoph Waltz 1575–1616 · jurist
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Adolphe Waltz 1840–1926 · university teacher
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Ernst Christian Otto Waltz 1844–1918 · historian
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Waltz.
- Walser 2,782 · U.S. census
- Walsh 105,079 · U.S. census
- Walter 48,024 · U.S. census
- Walther 6,444 · U.S. census
- Walti 132 · U.S. census
- Walton 73,854 · U.S. census
- Waltzer 264 · U.S. census
- Walz 7,220 · U.S. census
- Walzer 878 · U.S. census
- Wambach 779 · U.S. census
- Wambeke 243 · U.S. census
- Wander 944 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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