Lotze
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈɫoʊtz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lotze is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Lotz.
- DEGermany≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 899K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 192K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant of Lotz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lotze 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Lotze | 100 |
| US United States | 370 | 1 in 899K | 385 | Lotze | 158 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Lotze | 13 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 200K | — | Lotze | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 86 | 1 in 201K | 86 | Lotze | 10 |
| DO Dominican Republic | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 192K | — | Lotze | 2 |
| DK Denmark | 28 | 1 in 210K | 28 | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); 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)
Lotze 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 gsw, to waylay
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)
- Wilhelm Lotzeb. 1800DEGerman author and historian
- Moritz Lotzeb. 1809DEGerman painter and photographer; (1809-1890)
- Rudolf Hermann Lotzeb. 1817DEGerman philosopher (1817-1881)
- Franz Lotzeb. 1903DEGerman geologist (1903–1971)
- Alfred Lotzeb. 1915DEGerman computer scientist
- Rudi Lotzeb. 1921DEGerman politician (1921-1971)
- Detlef Lotzeb. 1930DEGerman historian of classical antiquity (1930–2018)
- Karl-Heinz Lotzeb. 1951DEDr. rer. nat. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena 1977
- Werner Lotzeb. 1952DEGerman criminal
- Hiltrud Lotzeb. 1958DEGerman politician
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 385 | #50,903 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 380 | #57,805 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 370 | #55,505 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 86 | #21,406 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 28 | #17,792 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Lotze mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Lotz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Lotze?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊtz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lotze have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Lotze in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lotze.
- How common is the name Lotze?
- In the United States, the national register counted 370 people named Lotze in 2010, about 1 in 899 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lotze?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lotzeThe 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, “Lotze”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.