Last Name LENTZ

Summary/Contribute


Meaning Not available
Origin Danish, German, Austrian, Belgian, Hungarian

Rank 2,248 (2000 US census) 2,165 (1990 US census)
Count 14,869 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 96.14%, or 14295 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 0.92%, or 137 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.46%, or 68 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.32%, or 48 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.08%, or 161 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.09%, or 162 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Ukrainian middle names

 Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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