How common is the surname Wurtz?

2,357 people in the United States had the surname Wurtz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,991 Americans. It ranked 13,029th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wurtz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wurtz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Wurtz getting more or less common?

Less common. 2,504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,357 in 2010, down 5.9%.

The surname Wurtz

A surname, carried by 2,357 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W632

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wurtz is more common than 92% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,357 people named Wurtz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 130,991 Americans. That is down 5.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,504.

#13,029

rank among US surnames

2,357

people in 2010

0.8

per 100,000 Americans

-5.9%

change since 2000 (was #11,523)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#13,023	Knutsen	2,358	130,935
#13,029	Arvin	2,357	130,991
#13,034	Weight	2,356	131,046
#13,037	Cargile	2,355	131,102

Who is named Wurtz

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

96% of people named Wurtz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.3%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.2%

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 Wurtz

Wurtz has the Soundex code W632, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W632.

Questions

How common is the surname Wurtz?: 2,357 people in the United States had the surname Wurtz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 130,991 Americans. It ranked 13,029th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wurtz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Wurtz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Wurtz getting more or less common?: Less common. 2,504 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,357 in 2010, down 5.9%.