How common is the surname Menz?

1,386 people in the United States had the surname Menz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. It ranked 19,489th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Menz?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Menz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

Is the surname Menz getting more or less common?

More common. 1,370 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,386 in 2010, up 1.2%.

The surname Menz

A surname, carried by 1,386 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex M520

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Menz is more common than 88% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,386 people named Menz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. That is up 1.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,370.

#19,489

rank among US surnames

1,386

people in 2010

0.5

per 100,000 Americans

+1.2%

change since 2000 (was #18,569)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#19,480	Vanvoorhis	1,387	222,600
#19,489	Pulsifer	1,386	222,760
#19,498	Dubuque	1,385	222,921

Who is named Menz

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

92% of people named Menz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 92%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 1.0%
Two or more races 0.9%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Menz

Menz has the Soundex code M520, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code M520.

Questions

How common is the surname Menz?: 1,386 people in the United States had the surname Menz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 222,760 Americans. It ranked 19,489th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Menz?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Menz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.9% as American Indian and Alaska Native.
Is the surname Menz getting more or less common?: More common. 1,370 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,386 in 2010, up 1.2%.