Petzold
surname · Latin script
Meaning: z-Suffix plus -old; compound surname formation with old patronymic ending
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pʰɛtsɔlt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petzold is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
z-Suffix plus -old; compound surname formation with old patronymic ending.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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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)
Petzold is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, z-Suffix plus -old; patronymic/old-suffix variation.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Namensform mit Suffixkombination -zold; aus Kurzform zu Rufnamen mit ahd. beraht/ahs. ber(e)ht 'hell, glänzend'.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Patronymisch zu Berthold/Bernhard, teils auch zu Peter; Kombination mit z-Suffix plus -old. Bearer counts: e 7136 tokens, ä 2721, ae 773, a 1675.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Patronym zu Petrus bzw. Berthold; zeigt schwankende Schreibungen mit -tz-, -z-, -d/-dt, -th- und Umlaut. 25 Types/9936 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum zu einem Rufnamen auf Pet-; typisches hypokoristisches Suffix -zold/-sold, 11362 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
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)
- Christian Petzoldb. 1677DEGerman composer and organist
- Eduard Petzoldb. 1815PLGerman landscape gardener (1815-1891)
- Bruno Petzoldb. 1873DEGerman journalist and author (1873–1949)
- Konrad Petzoldb. 1930DEGerman film director (1930-1999)
- Holger Petzoldb. 1944DEGerman actor, stage actor and film actor
- Charles Petzoldb. 1953USAmerican computer programmer
- Barbara Petzoldb. 1955DEEast German cross-country skier
- Martin Petzoldb. 1955DEGerman operatic and concert tenor (1955–2023)
- Christian Petzoldb. 1960DEGerman film director (born 1960)
- Maik Petzoldb. 1978DEGerman triathlete
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.4K | #19,757 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,667 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.4K | #19,796 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 811 | #11,141 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 78 | #13,335 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 73 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 52 | #49,577 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,266 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,453 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 29 | #39,170 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 23 | — |
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
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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Petzold mean, and where does it come from?
- z-Suffix plus -old; compound surname formation with old patronymic ending. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen.
- How do you pronounce Petzold?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɛtsɔlt/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Petzold have the most bearers?
- Petzold is most frequently recorded in Germany.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Petzold”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.