Kuntz
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: From the medieval German male personal name Chunizo, from Old High German kuoni ‘brave’ or chunni ‘people, race’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkənts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuntz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 31K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 367 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
10,848 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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 the medieval German male personal name Chunizo, from Old High German kuoni ‘brave’ or chunni ‘people, race’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Kuntz is read(measured from records)
Kuntz is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English71%
From the medieval German male personal name Chunizo, from Old High German kuoni ‘brave’ or chunni ‘people, race’.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
- French9.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kuntz in French.
- German5.5%
from the old personal name Chunizo, formed with Old High German kuoni ‘bold’, ‘brave’, ‘experienced’, or possibly chunni ‘race’, ‘people’. It is sometimes taken as a pet form of Konrad. The expression Hinz und Kunz was a German equivalent of ‘every Tom, Dick, and Harry’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
aus dem Rufnamen ahd. kuoni / altsächs. kōni 'kühn'; patronymische Bildung
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Varianz tz/z; Konsonantismus mit -tz/-z in Kurzformen auf -unt-. Belegt Kuntz, Heintz, Kunz, Heinz.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Kurzform zu Konrad; zeigt dentale Affrikaten/Frikative (tz/z). Bearer count: 1491.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuntz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 10,848 | 1 in 31K | 11K | Kuntz | 367 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | listed | Kuntz | 126 |
| FR France | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 20K | 484 | Kuntz | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Kuntz | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,700 | 1 in 125K | 1.7K | — | 4 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Kuntz | 148 |
| JM Jamaica | #998 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Kuntz | 1 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kuntz | 1 |
10,848 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; the dfa-band-1 register; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Carl Kuntzb. 1770DEGerman painter (1770-1830)
- Pedro de Madrazob. 1816ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter and poet (1816-1898)
- Luis Madrazob. 1825ESnot in their usual nameSpanish painter (1825-1897)
- Juan de Madrazo y Kuntzb. 1829ESSpanish architect (1829-1880)
- Albert Kuntzb. 1896DEGerman politician (1896–1945)
- Günter Kuntzb. 1938DEGerman association football player
- Rusty Kuntzb. 1955USAmerican baseball player and coach
- Rose Dieng-Kuntzb. 1956SNSenegalese computer scientist (1956–2008)
- Stefan Kuntzb. 1962DEGerman association football player and manager
- Andy Kuntzb. 1962DEGerman singer
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 28 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,307 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 11K | #3,081 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 10K | #3,426 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,669 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 569 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 554 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 528 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 484 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 479 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 472 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 460 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 403 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kuntz mean, and where does it come from?
- From the medieval German male personal name Chunizo, from Old High German kuoni ‘brave’ or chunni ‘people, race’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Kuntz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkənts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuntz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Kuntz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuntz.
- How common is the name Kuntz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,848 people named Kuntz in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuntz compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Kuntz is the 998th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuntzThe 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, “Kuntz” — the 998th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.