Knutzen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: German and Scandinavian; patronymic from Knuth
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnətzən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knutzen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 14K
- DKDenmark1 in 29K
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Sources
- 195 (measured from records)
- 1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
396 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
German and Scandinavian; patronymic from Knuth.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knutzen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 396 | 1 in 14K | 396 | Knutzen | 28 |
| US United States | 327 | 1 in 1M | 593 | Knutzen | 195 |
| CA Canada | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Knutzen | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 204 | 1 in 29K | 204 | Knutzen | 45 |
| EG Egypt | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 797K | — | Knutzen | 1 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 342K | — | Knutzen | 1 |
| PE Peru | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 308K | — | Knutzen | 6 |
396 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Knutzen 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.
In German, Nordisches Patronym auf -sen > -zen zu Knut, Kurzform von Kanut; schleswig(-holsteinisch) konzentriert. 380 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Matthias Knutzenb. 1646DEGerman atheist
- Andreas Martin Knutzenb. 1863NONorwegian pianist (1863–1909)
- Friedrich Knutzenb. 1881DEGerman politician (1881-1938)
- P. Knutzenb. 1887DKDanish jurist
- Samuel Knutzenb. 1892NONorwegian association football player, businessperson and sports official (1892-1975)
- William Knutzenb. 1913NONorwegian ceramist
- Egill Knutzenb. 1914NONorwegian fencer (1914–1990)
- Thea Knutzenb. 1930NONorwegian politician (1930-2016)
- Jan Knutzenb. 1943NONorgwegian filmmaker
- Karen Knutzenb. 1945DEGerman badminton 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)
Attested in 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 593 | #39,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 497 | #41,320 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 396 | #3,672 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 327 | #61,436 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 204 | #2,444 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Knutzen mean, and where does it come from?
- German and Scandinavian; patronymic from Knuth. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Knutzen?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnətzən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Knutzen have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 396 people named Knutzen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knutzen.
- Where is Knutzen most common?
- Knutzen is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 14 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Knutzen?
- In Norway, the national register counted 396 people named Knutzen, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knutzenThe 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, “Knutzen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.