Menz Surname: Origin, Meaning & Coat of Arms

The last name Menz is another written form of Menzel, a German family name. Surname dictionaries give the meaning as “from the name Hermann”.

How the spelling arose

Before spelling was fixed, Menzel was also written Menz. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. The same family of names includes Menzl, Mentzel and Manzel.

In the records

The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Menz with 1,386 bearers, at rank 19,489. That is enough to place it in the top 25,000 American surnames.

Menz coat of arms

Arms linked to Menzel and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

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