# Foltz (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/foltz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 8,714 |
| US rank (2010) | 4,075 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 35,431 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.3% (8,520 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Foltz in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.5% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.2% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Foltz in Canada and the United States.

## People named Foltz

- Richard Foltz, American-Canadian scholar and historian (born 1961)
- Clara Shortridge Foltz, American lawyer and women's rights activist (1849-1934)

## Similar surnames

Fultz, Feltz, Fields, Fletcher, Felts, Fults, Folds, Fletes, Feldkamp, Feldstein, Fieldhouse.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.