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The LENTZ surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 14,869 2248 0.006 55
United States (1880 census) 3,206 1907 0.006 64
Change since 1880 +11663 -341 0 -9
Other Countries
Australia 28 39956 0 2
United Kingdom 0 0
Top States for LENTZ by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Pennsylvania 1,933 650 0.016 157
Wisconsin 910 564 0.017 170
Michigan 868 1231 0.009 87
Florida 827 2466 0.005 52
California 806 3699 0.002 24
Top States for LENTZ by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Wisconsin 910 564 0.017 170
Pennsylvania 1,933 650 0.016 157
North Dakota 71 1232 0.011 111
Minnesota 521 1021 0.011 106
South Dakota 68 1532 0.009 90

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called LENTZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called LENTZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called LENTZ in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a LENTZ by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of LENTZ

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the LENTZ surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of LENTZ in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 162 1.09
Mixed Race 161 1.08
Black/African American 137 0.92
Asian/Pacific 68 0.46
Native American/Alaskan 48 0.32
White (Caucasian) 14,295 96.14

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the LENTZ surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of LENTZ in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of LENTZ.

Similar names to LENTZ

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as LENTZ.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for LENTZ

The following words are slight variants of LENTZ that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.