How common is the surname Startz?

302 people in the United States had the surname Startz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,022,336 Americans. It ranked 65,593rd of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Startz?

In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Startz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Startz getting more or less common?

Less common. 355 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 302 in 2010, down 15%.

The surname Startz

A surname, carried by 302 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex S363

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Startz is more common than 59.6% of them.

Origin

* As a south German surname, variant of Stertz and German Starz. * As an Americanization of a Germanized Slavic name, from Upper Sorbian starc, Lower Sorbian starc, or Slovene stȃrəc (dialectal stȃrc), all meaning "old man"; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starьcь (“old man”) * As a dialectal Bavarian surname, from Starz (“tail”) (see Steiß (“tail, coccyx”)) Compare Starck.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 302 people named Startz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 1,022,336 Americans. That is down 15% since 2000, when the Census counted 355.

#65,593

rank among US surnames

302

people in 2010

0.1

per 100,000 Americans

-14.9%

change since 2000 (was #54,385)

Who is named Startz

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

86% of people named Startz identified as white (not Hispanic), 8.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.3% as American Indian and Alaska Native.

White (not Hispanic) 86%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.0%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.3%
Two or more races 2.0%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Asian & Pacific Islander are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Startz

Startz has the Soundex code S363, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S363.

Questions

Where does the surname Startz come from?: * As a south German surname, variant of Stertz and German Starz. * As an Americanization of a Germanized Slavic name, from Upper Sorbian starc, Lower Sorbian starc, or Slovene stȃrəc (dialectal stȃrc), all meaning "old man"; ultimately from Proto-Slavic *starьcь (“old man”) * As a dialectal…
How common is the surname Startz?: 302 people in the United States had the surname Startz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 1,022,336 Americans. It ranked 65,593rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Startz?: In the 2010 Census, 86% of people named Startz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 8.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Startz getting more or less common?: Less common. 355 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 302 in 2010, down 15%.