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

Goertz, 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 Goertz surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Goertz in America

Goertz is the 18977th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Goertz surname appeared 1,437 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 Goertz.

We can also compare 2010 data for Goertz 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 Goertz

The surname Goertz originated in Germany and dates back to the 13th century. It is derived from the German word "Görz" which referred to the town of Görz, now known as Gorizia, in northeastern Italy near the border with Slovenia. The name likely originated as a locational surname, indicating that the bearer or their ancestors came from this town.

The earliest known record of the name Goertz can be found in the Codex Diplomaticus Brandenburgensis, a collection of medieval documents from the Margraviate of Brandenburg, dated to 1275. Here, a person named "Henricus de Goriz" is mentioned, using the Latin form of the name.

In the 14th century, the name appears in various spellings such as "Göriz," "Ghortz," and "Goeritz" in various German records and chronicles. One notable example is the mention of a "Johannes Goeritz" in the Stadtbuch of Mühlhausen in Thuringia, dated to 1382.

The name Goertz has been associated with several notable individuals throughout history. One of the earliest was Johann Eustach von Goertz (1670-1728), a German-Swedish statesman and diplomat who served as the Prime Minister of Sweden from 1719 to 1720.

Another prominent figure was Georg Heinrich von Goertz (1668-1719), a German jurist and political writer who served as the Prime Minister of Prussia from 1703 to 1709.

In the 19th century, there was Theodor Goertz (1835-1904), a German architect and urban planner who designed several notable buildings in Berlin and other cities.

The name Goertz was also associated with the German nobility, with families such as the Barons von Goertz and the Counts von Goertz-Wrisberg, who traced their lineage back to the medieval period.

In more recent times, one notable bearer of the name was Hans Goertz (1919-1998), a German-American aerospace engineer who worked on the development of early rocket and spacecraft designs for NASA and the U.S. space program.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Goertz

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

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 Goertz 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 Goertz 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 Goertz was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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