Waltz

English

Proper noun

Waltz (countable and uncountable, plural Waltzes)

  1. A surname.
    • 2025 March 24, Katie Bo Lillis, Kaitlan Collins, Jeff Zeleny, Evan Perez, Oren Liebermann, Jamie Gangel, Kit Maher and Sean Lyngaas, “Trump’s national security adviser added a journalist to text chat on highly sensitive Yemen strike plans”, in CNN[1]:
      According to the Atlantic, national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month convened a text conversation with top US officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, to discuss strikes on Houthi militants in Yemen who had been threatening international shipping in the Red Sea. Waltz, apparently accidentally, added Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg to the chain.
  2. A place in the United States:
    1. A township in Wabash County, Indiana.
    2. An unincorporated community in Rowan County, Kentucky.
    3. An unincorporated community in Huron Township, Wayne County, Michigan.

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Waltz is the 5131st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6819 individuals. Waltz is most common among White (95.31%) individuals.

See also

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Waltz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvalt͡s/
  • Rhymes: -alt͡s
  • Syllabification: Waltz
  • Homophone: walc

Proper noun

Waltz m pers

  1. a male surname from German

Declension

Proper noun

Waltz f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname from German

Further reading

  • Waltz”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022