Pankratz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Pankratius/Pancratius; aus gr
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpæŋkɹəts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pankratz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 133K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 446K
- PLPoland1 in 1.4M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 133K (inferred from the name graph)
2,498 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Pankratius/Pancratius; aus gr. Pankratēs „allmächtig, allstark“. Bearer counts u.a. 8 in PLZ 934 Cham.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pankratz 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 | 2,498 | 1 in 133K | 2.5K | Pankratz | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 58 | 1 in 3.7M | 58 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 28 | 1 in 1.4M | 14 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 24 | 1 in 446K | 24 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
2,498 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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)
Pankratz is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Patronym zu Rufname Pancratius (griech. pankrates „allmächtig, sehr stark“); 1252 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Pankratius/Pancratius; 1252 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
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)
- Artur Pankratzb. 1893PLGerman politician
- John Pankratzb. 1957CAAmerican gridiron football player (born 1961)
- Helga Pankratzb. 1959ATAustrian author (1959-2014)
- Marcia Pankratzb. 1964USAmerican field hockey player
- Maria Pankratzb. 1965DEGerman actress born in Kazakhstan
- Björn Pankratzb. 1970DEGerman video game developer
- Jennifer Pankratzb. 1983DEGerman video game developer
- Leonie Pankratzb. 1990DEGerman association football player
- Nathan Pankratzresearcher
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 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.5K | #12,435 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.3K | #12,722 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.3K | #12,305 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 58 | #94,441 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 24 | #47,751 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 24 | #14,569 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,912 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #111,600 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #83,438 |
Reference works 4
- 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
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
- How do you pronounce Pankratz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpæŋkɹəts/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Pankratz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronymischer Familienname zu Rufname Pankratius/Pancratius; aus gr.
- In which country does Pankratz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named Pankratz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pankratz.
- Where is Pankratz most common?
- Pankratz is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 133 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pankratz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,498 people named Pankratz in 2010, about 1 in 133 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pankratzThe 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, “Pankratz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.