Gutzeit
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German surname from gut + Zeit; probably a nickname for a cheerful, lively person
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ɡʊtsajt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gutzeit is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 30K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2M
- CHSwitzerland1 in 764K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)German surname from gut + Zeit; probably a nickname for a cheerful, lively person. Bearer counts: 1246.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Gutzeit 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Gutzeit | 102 |
| US United States | 167 | 1 in 2M | 167 | Gutzeit | 92 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈60 est. | ≈1 in 946K | — | Gutzeit | 7 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 928K | — | Gutzeit | 1 |
| BR Brazil | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | Gutzeit | 4 |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hans Gutzeitb. 1836FINorwegian entrepreneur active in Finland, industralist and founder of VW. Gutzeit (later part of Stora Enso)
- Hedwig Gutzeitb. 1871DEGerman film actor and writer (1871-1945)
- Kurt Gutzeitb. 1893DEGerman internist (1893–1957)
- Hans Gutzeitb. 1894FRGerman officer, Major general of the Wehrmacht
- Tilo Gutzeitb. 1938DEGerman figure skater
- Martin Gutzeitb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Siegmar Gutzeitb. 1952DEGerman fencer
- Vadim Gutzeitb. 1971UAUkrainian fencer and politician
- Fynn Gutzeitb. 1990DEGerman association football player
- Andreas Gutzeitdirector and filmmaker
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 167 | #106,570 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 149 | #109,915 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 145 | #124,450 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #39,023 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- Where does the name Gutzeit come from?
- German surname from gut + Zeit; probably a nickname for a cheerful, lively person. Bearer counts: 1246. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Gutzeit?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡʊtsajt/ (IPA) for German.
- What does the name Gutzeit mean?
- Recorded meaning: German surname from gut + Zeit; probably a nickname for a cheerful, lively person.
- In which country does Gutzeit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Gutzeit in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gutzeit.
- How common is the name Gutzeit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Gutzeit in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gutzeitThe 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, “Gutzeit”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.