How common is the surname Patz?

1,017 people in the United States had the surname Patz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. It ranked 24,572nd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Patz?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Patz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

How do you pronounce Patz?

Patz is /ˈpeɪts/, one syllable.

Is the surname Patz getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,017 in 2010, down 6.1%.

The surname Patz

A Hebrew surname, carried by 1,017 people in the United States.

Pronounced /ˈpeɪts/ 1 syllable Soundex P320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Patz is more common than 84.9% of them.

Origin

Hebrew origin

A surname from Hebrew.

One of 51 Hebrew surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,017 people named Patz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. That is down 6.1% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,083.

#24,572

rank among US surnames

1,017

people in 2010

0.3

per 100,000 Americans

-6.1%

change since 2000 (was #22,222)

Who is named Patz

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

95% of people named Patz identified as white (not Hispanic), 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.9%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

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 Patz

Patz has the Soundex code P320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code P320.

Other Hebrew surnames

All 51 Hebrew surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Patz come from?: Patz is Hebrew in origin.
How common is the surname Patz?: 1,017 people in the United States had the surname Patz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 303,585 Americans. It ranked 24,572nd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Patz?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Patz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 3.9% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
How do you pronounce Patz?: Patz is /ˈpeɪts/, one syllable.
Is the surname Patz getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,083 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,017 in 2010, down 6.1%.