Find out how popular the last name Arntz is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Arntz.

Arntz, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Arntz surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Arntz in America

Arntz is the 26362nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Arntz surname appeared 926 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Arntz.

We can also compare 2010 data for Arntz to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Arntz

The surname Arntz originated in the region of Rhineland, Germany during the late medieval period. It is derived from the Old German personal name Arno, which means "eagle" or "ruler." The name was often associated with nobility and those in positions of power.

One of the earliest recorded instances of the surname can be found in the Codex Diplomaticus Saxoniae Regiae, a collection of medieval charters and documents from Saxony, dating back to the 12th century. The name Arntz was likely adopted as a hereditary surname during this time.

In the 13th century, the name appeared in various records from the Rhineland region, such as the Codex Diplomaticus Rheno-Mosellanus, a collection of documents from the Moselle and Rhine regions. This suggests that the surname was well-established in this area during the Middle Ages.

One notable bearer of the name was Johann Arntz, a 16th-century German cartographer and engraver who created several maps of Europe and the Holy Roman Empire. He was born in Arnsberg, Westphalia, around 1555 and died in Cologne in 1613.

Another individual with the surname Arntz was Johann Michael Arntz, a German painter and engraver from the 18th century. He was born in Aachen in 1728 and died in the same city in 1796. His works include religious paintings and engravings commissioned by local churches and monasteries.

In the 19th century, Michael Joseph Arntz was a prominent German Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was born in Reifferscheid, Prussia, in 1800 and died in Trier in 1878. Arntz was known for his writings on the philosophy of religion and his contributions to the Catholic Encyclopedia.

Another bearer of the name was Peter Arntz, a German architect and urban planner active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born in Cologne in 1871 and died in the same city in 1940. Arntz was responsible for designing several notable buildings and urban developments in Cologne during this period.

In the early 20th century, Gert Arntz was a Dutch graphic designer and pioneer of isotype, a pictorial language for conveying information through pictograms. He was born in Remmel, Germany, in 1900 and died in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1988. Arntz's iconic pictograms were widely used in educational materials and public information campaigns.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Arntz

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Arntz.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Arntz was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Arntz has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Arntz was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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