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

Pomerantz, 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 Pomerantz surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Pomerantz in America

Pomerantz is the 15541st most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Pomerantz surname appeared 1,883 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 people would have the surname Pomerantz.

We can also compare 2010 data for Pomerantz 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 Pomerantz

The surname Pomerantz is of Ashkenazic Jewish origin, derived from the German place name Pomerania, which was a region located in what is now northern Germany and western Poland. The name likely emerged in the 16th or 17th century, when many Ashkenazi Jews settled in this area.

The name Pomerania itself is derived from the Slavic word "po more," meaning "by the sea," referring to the region's coastal location along the Baltic Sea. The earliest recorded spelling of the surname Pomerantz appears to be "Pomeranz," which was a common variant in the 17th and 18th centuries.

One of the earliest recorded individuals with this surname was Abraham Pomerantz, a prominent rabbi and scholar who lived in the town of Vilnius (now in Lithuania) in the late 16th century. Another notable figure was Isaac Pomerantz, a Talmudic scholar and author who lived in the city of Krakow, Poland, in the 17th century.

In the 18th century, the surname Pomerantz can be found in various records and documents from the Prussian region of Pomerania. For example, a tombstone in the Jewish cemetery of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) bears the name of Moses Pomerantz, who died in 1724.

As the Jewish population began to migrate westward in the 19th century, the surname Pomerantz spread to other parts of Europe and later to the United States. One notable American with this surname was Abraham Pomerantz, a lawyer and activist who was born in 1887 and played a significant role in the development of consumer protection laws and class action lawsuits.

Another individual of note was Max Pomerantz, a Polish-born American businessman and philanthropist (1888-1977), who co-founded the Pomerantz Candy Company and was involved in various charitable organizations. Additionally, Joseph Pomerantz, an American artist and sculptor (1911-1985), was known for his abstract expressionist works and public art installations.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Pomerantz

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

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

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