Kríž
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cross (geometrical figure)
Kríž is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 18K
- SKSlovakia1 in 63K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
7,147 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kriz in CZ Czechia, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
cross (geometrical figure)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kríž counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #336 | 7,147 | 1 in 1.5K | 7.2K | Kriz | 81 |
| US United States | — | 1,459 | 1 in 228K | 1.5K | Kriz | 51 |
| HR Croatia | — | 233 | 1 in 18K | 233 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 346K | — | Kriz | 10 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 219K | — | Kriz | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 86 | 1 in 63K | 86 | Kríž | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 57 | 1 in 147K | 57 | — | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | — | — |
7,147 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling kříž. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kríž is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Serbo-Croatian, kršćanski termin, 'križ'
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Serbo-Croatian, 1° sinonim: krst (pravoslavci) kao crkveni termin; 2° svetkovina; 3° krsta, leđa; 4° macula in crucis formam; 5° toponim
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jozef Krížb. 1917SKCzechoslovak member of Slovak National Council, member of Czechoslovak national parliament and Slovak nation politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #113,729 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kríž mean, and where does it come from?
- cross (geometrical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kríž have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Kríž, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kriz.
- Where is Kríž most common?
- Kríž is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kríž?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 7,147 people named Kríž, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Kríž compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Kríž is the 336th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%AD%C5%BEThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Kríž” — the 336th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.