Kainz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Konkurrenz: Herkunftsname zu Kainz/Kainzen; diminutive/hypokoristische Form mit -z/-tz
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Kainz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- ATAustria
- DEGermany
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Konkurrenz: Herkunftsname zu Kainz/Kainzen; diminutive/hypokoristische Form mit -z/-tz.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Kainz is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Tyrolean dialect form of Kuntz.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)- Josef Kainzb. 1858HUAustro-Hungarian actor (1858-1910)
- Friedrich Kainzb. 1897ATAustrian literary historian (1897-1977)
- Adolf Kainzb. 1903ATCanoe racer (1903–1948)
- Walter Kainzb. 1907ATcomposer, musician and music arranger from Austria
- Walter Kainzb. 1918ATAustrian writer and judge
- Edda Kainzb. 1940ATAustrian alpine skier
- Alois Kainzb. 1964ATAustrian politician
- Christoph Kainzb. 1967ATAustrian politician
- Kenneth Kainzb. 1970DKDanish film director
- Florian Kainzb. 1992ATAustrian association football player
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 684 | #35,441 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 673 | #33,810 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 645 | #33,380 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 48 | #19,268 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 26 | #21,230 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12 | #73,432 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 12 | #17,732 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 8 | #59,542 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 8 | #21,902 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Kainz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Konkurrenz: Herkunftsname zu Kainz/Kainzen; diminutive/hypokoristische Form mit -z/-tz.
- In which country does Kainz have the most bearers?
- Kainz is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kainzThe 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
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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, “Kainz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.