A last name ending in "witz" is usually what nationality?

Question

A last name ending in "witz" is usually what nationality?

Answer 1

Russian. Not only that, but in the US, there is probably more than 90% probability that the person is also Jewish.

Answer 2

My guess would be Hebrew (Jewish).  Examples are Horowitz or  Rabinowitz.  But remember, you cannot always tell someone's nationality by their name, even if their name is clearly from a particular nationality or culture.    

Answer 3

Probably Russian but a lot of Jewish names end with witz.  

Answer 4

The suffix "witz" is a variant of any of the following :

vich (Russian, occasionally a respelling of original Serbian, Croatian -vić) "son of"

-vych (Ukrainian)

-wicz (Polish)

-vić (Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian)

-vič (Slovenian, Slovak)

-vitz, -witz, -witch (Germanized or Anglicized respellings, of vich)