How common is the surname Bolz?

1,039 people in the United States had the surname Bolz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,156 Americans. It ranked 24,186th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bolz?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bolz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bolz getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,039 in 2010, down 0.6%.

The surname Bolz

A surname, carried by 1,039 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex B420

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bolz is more common than 85.1% of them.

Origin

Spelling variant of the surnames Boltz and Bohls

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,039 people named Bolz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 297,156 Americans. That is down 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,045.

#24,186

rank among US surnames

1,039

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-0.6%

change since 2000 (was #22,870)

Who is named Bolz

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Bolz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.4% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.7%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bolz

Bolz has the Soundex code B420, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B420.

Questions

Where does the surname Bolz come from?: Spelling variant of the surnames Boltz and Bohls
How common is the surname Bolz?: 1,039 people in the United States had the surname Bolz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 297,156 Americans. It ranked 24,186th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bolz?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Bolz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bolz getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,045 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,039 in 2010, down 0.6%.