Krötz
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: BFS, 2024
Krötz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from German Krotz.
- DEGermany≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 571K
- 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krötz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 113K (inferred from the name graph)
953 named Kroetz
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kroetz in AT Austria, GB United Kingdom and Krotz in US United States.
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)Borrowed from German Krotz.
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krötz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 953as Kroetz | 1 in 222K | 953 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 113K | — | Krötz | 51 |
| US United States | 583 | 1 in 571K | 659 | Krotz | 178 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 902K | — | Kroetz | 12 |
| AT Austria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 310K | — | Kroetz | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 11 | 1 in 764K | 11 | — | 4 |
953 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)- Bernhard Krötzb. 1970DEPh.D. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1998
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 11 | #56,728 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Krötz mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from German Krotz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Krötz have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 953 people named Kroetz, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Krötz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 583 people named Krötz in 2010, about 1 in 571 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Krötz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kr%C3%B6tzThe 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, “Krötz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.