as a Last Name
- 117,769
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Schultz
Meaning & Origins
German: status name for a village headman, from a contracted form of Middle High German schultheize. The term originally denoted a man responsible for collecting dues and paying them to the lord of the manor; it is a compound of sculd(a) ‘debt’, ‘due’ + a derivative of heiz(z)an ‘to command’. The surname is also established in Scandinavia.
| 257th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 117,769
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Wisconsin
- has the most people named Schultz per capita
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