Karthaus

loc · Latin script

Karthaus is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the Netherlands. Recorded meaning: from Cartusia/Chartreuse; from a Carthusian monastery or place name.

Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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 Cartusia/Chartreuse; from a Carthusian monastery or place name

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Karthaus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Karthaus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands—133—2
BE Belgium—7—7
CH Switzerland—4——
US United States—listed—3
IT Italy—listed—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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Karthaus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Certosa

  • Italian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Certosa

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Jim Karthaus, b. 1898Ulrich Karthaus, b. 1935Detlef Karthaus, b. 1950Gero Karthaus, b. 1960Olaf Karthaus, b. 1963Arnim Karthaus, b. 1972Jon Karthaus, b. 1985Anna Karthaus, b. 1991

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 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Karthaus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)2007133#15,073
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20087#85,086
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20244#118,617
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Karthaus mean, and where does it come from?
from Cartusia/Chartreuse; from a Carthusian monastery or place name Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
In which country does Karthaus have the most bearers?
Karthaus is most frequently recorded in the Netherlands.

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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karthaus

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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, “Karthaus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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