How common is the surname Jantz?

3,005 people in the United States had the surname Jantz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,744 Americans. It ranked 10,647th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Jantz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jantz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Jantz getting more or less common?

More common. 2,906 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,005 in 2010, up 3.4%.

The surname Jantz

A German surname, carried by 3,005 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex J532

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Jantz is more common than 93.4% of them.

Origin

German origin

Borrowed from German Jantz.

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 3,005 people named Jantz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 102,744 Americans. That is up 3.4% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,906.

#10,647

rank among US surnames

3,005

people in 2010

1.0

per 100,000 Americans

+3.4%

change since 2000 (was #10,186)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#10,641	Toups	3,008	102,641
#10,644	Mattes	3,007	102,676
#10,645	Rosso	3,006	102,710
#10,647	Kan	3,005	102,744
#10,649	Weyer	3,004	102,778
#10,653	Anchondo	3,003	102,812

Who is named Jantz

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

96% of people named Jantz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 0.9%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

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

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Yantz

Surnames that sound like Jantz

Jantzen

Jantz has the Soundex code J532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code J532.

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Jantz come from?: Borrowed from German Jantz.
How common is the surname Jantz?: 3,005 people in the United States had the surname Jantz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 102,744 Americans. It ranked 10,647th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Jantz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Jantz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Jantz getting more or less common?: More common. 2,906 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,005 in 2010, up 3.4%.
What are other spellings of Jantz?: Yantz.