Koetze

Name: Koetze: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10

surname · Latin script

Koetze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Namibia it is the 87th most common surname.

rarermore common

ZASouth Africa≈1 in 2.2Kas Kotze(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 2.6Mas Kotze
NLNetherlands1 in 149K

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 Koetze 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.

: South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 103 (measured from records)
: 1 in 149K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KotzeLatin

Locally spelled Kotze in ZA South Africa, US United States, AU Australia and 3 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Koetze 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.

Where Koetze is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
ZA South Africa	#163	≈26,000 est.	≈1 in 2.2K	—	Kotze	102
NA Namibia	#87	≈1,400 est.	≈1 in 1.9K	—	Kotze	11
AU Australia	—	≈220 est.	≈1 in 115K	—	Kotze	67
GB United Kingdom	—	≈200 est.	≈1 in 335K	—	Kotze	79
US United States	—	126as Kotze	1 in 2.6M	203	Kotze	103
NL Netherlands	—	116	1 in 149K	116	Koetze	10
NZ New Zealand	—	≈57 est.	≈1 in 86K	—	Kotze	25

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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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)

Koetze is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Spanish name2 spellings in the group
Also written Köętze

8 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Koetze
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
NL Netherlands	CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)	2007	116	#16,889

Reference works 1

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Koetze have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Kotze in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Koetze most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Koetze is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 149 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Koetze?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 116 people named Koetze in 2007, about 1 in 149 thousand residents.
How common is Koetze compared with other names?: In South Africa, Koetze is the 163rd most common surname of 285,788 surnames recorded there.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/koetze

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Koetze” — the 163rd most common surname in South Africa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)