Moritz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Moritz, a variant of Mauritz (see Morris)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɔˈɹɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moritz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 83K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1Kas Maurice
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Moritz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 386 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈310,000 named Maurice, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Maurice in FR France, BE Belgium, CM Cameroon and 2 more and Moes in NL Netherlands.
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)
from the personal name Moritz, a variant of Mauritz (see Morris). Among Jews it was sometimes assumed as a surname by bearers of the personal name Moses, as the two names have some phonetic similarity.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Moritz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈310,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Maurice | 22 |
| US United States | — | 71,289as Maurice | 1 in 4.7K | 319K | Moritz | 386 |
| FR France | #181 | ≈57,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 337K | Maurice | 355 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 64 | Moritz | 258 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #229 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Maurice | 18 |
| CM Cameroon | #136 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Maurice | 32 |
| BE Belgium | #147 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 989 | Maurice | 105 |
| GY Guyana | — | 410as Maurice | 1 in 1.8K | 773 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | #884 | 207 | 1 in 83K | 12K | Moes | 106 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the de-munich-standesamt register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Moritz is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, a male given name, equivalent to English Morris or Maurice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Mauritius/Mauricius (Moritz), aus lat. Mauricius; Belege und zahlreiche Schreibvarianten im Alpen- und Südwestraum.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Moritz (lat. Mauritius, ‚der Mohr, aus Mauretanien stammend‘).
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, patronymischer Familienname zum Rufnamen Moritz/Mauritius; 5767 Träger
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, ) Moriz: männl. Vom., der aus lat. Mauritius, einer Ableitung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Karl Philipp Moritzb. 1756DEGerman author, editor and essayist
- Carl Wilhelm Moritzb. 1811DEGerman musical instrument maker (1811–1855)
- Carl Moritzb. 1863DEGerman architect (1863-1944)
- Yunna Moritsb. 1937RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (born 1937)
- Michael Moritzb. 1954GBBritish businessman
- Neal H. Moritzb. 1959USAmerican film producer
- Sabine Moritzb. 1969DEGerman artist (born 1969)
- André Moritzb. 1986BRBrazilian footballer and manager
- Christoph Moritzb. 1990DEGerman footballer
- Michael J. Moritz Jr.b. 2000USAmerican theatrical producer, record producer, music supervisor, music director, arranger, performer and pianist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Moritz mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Moritz, a variant of Mauritz (see Morris). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Moritz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 306 thousand people named Maurice in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How do you pronounce Moritz?
- A machine transcription gives /mɔˈɹɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Moritz?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 207 people named Moritz, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
- How common is Moritz compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Moritz is the 136th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Moritz?
- In the etymology graph, Morris and Meuric are forms of the same name in other languages.
What do you want to know about Moritz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moritzThe 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, “Moritz” — the 136th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.