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    The surname Buchholz

    A German surname, carried by 7,790 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex B242

    Buchholz: #4,547 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Buchholz #4,547, 7,790 people Buchholz: #4,547 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Buchholz #4,547, 7,790 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Buchholz is more common than 97.2% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Buchholz.

    One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 7,790 people named Buchholz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 39,634 Americans. That is up 0.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 7,735.

    #4,547
    rank among US surnames
    7,790
    people in 2010
    2.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.7%
    change since 2000 (was #4,240)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #4,538Yount7,81739,497
    #4,539Hair7,81439,512
    #4,541Vanwinkle7,81139,527
    #4,542Caldera7,80239,573
    #4,543Deboer7,79839,593
    #4,544Bricker7,79239,623
    #4,546DeAngelis7,79139,628

    Who is named Buchholz

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

    95% of people named Buchholz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.2%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.2%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Famous Buchholzs

    4 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

    • Butch Buchholz
      American tennis player, born 1940
    • John Theodore Buchholz
      American botanist (1888-1951)
    • Clay Buchholz
      American professional baseball pitcher, born 1984
    • Werner Buchholz
      American computer scientist (1922–2019)

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Variant spellings

    Surnames that sound like Buchholz

    Buchholz has the Soundex code B242, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B242.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Buchholz come from?
    Borrowed from German Buchholz.
    How common is the surname Buchholz?
    7,790 people in the United States had the surname Buchholz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 39,634 Americans. It ranked 4,547th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Buchholz?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Buchholz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.2% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Who is the most famous person named Buchholz?
    Butch Buchholz, American tennis player, followed by John Theodore Buchholz.
    Where is the surname Buchholz most common?
    Wikidata records people named Buchholz in the United States.
    Is the surname Buchholz getting more or less common?
    More common. 7,735 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,790 in 2010, up 0.7%.
    What are other spellings of Buchholz?
    Buchholtz, Bucholtz, Bucholz, Buckholtz and Buckholz.