Kuzel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from kuzel ‘distaff’, ‘cone’, either a descriptive nickname for someone with a cone-shaped head or an unflattering nickname for an unstable, inconstant person, one who was easliy moved around
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkuzəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuzel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 758K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 13K
- HRCroatia1 in 62K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
842 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from kuzel ‘distaff’, ‘cone’, either a descriptive nickname for someone with a cone-shaped head or an unflattering nickname for an unstable, inconstant person, one who was easliy moved around.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuzel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 842 | 1 in 13K | 842 | — | 2 |
| US United States | 439 | 1 in 758K | 439 | Kuzel | 158 |
| SK Slovakia | 69 | 1 in 79K | 69 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 68 | 1 in 62K | 68 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 975K | — | Kuzel | 22 |
| SG Singapore | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Kuzel | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
842 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Kuzel 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 vep, adessive singular of kuz' (“spruce”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Hans Kuzelb. 1859ATAustrian chemist (1859-1922)
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 2010 | 2010 | 439 | #48,160 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 429 | #46,678 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 414 | #53,865 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 68 | #10,648 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 64 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 24 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kuzel mean, and where does it come from?
- from kuzel ‘distaff’, ‘cone’, either a descriptive nickname for someone with a cone-shaped head or an unflattering nickname for an unstable, inconstant person, one who was easliy moved around. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kuzel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkuzəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kuzel have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 842 people named Kuzel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuzel most common?
- Kuzel is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kuzel?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 842 people named Kuzel, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuzelThe 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, “Kuzel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.