Pilz

surname · Latin script

Meaning: from 'mushroom'; also short form of BIL; also ON Breslau; see Pelz

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pɪlts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pilz is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Germany.

rarermore common
  • ATAustria
  • DEGermany
  • 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.

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from 'mushroom'; also short form of BIL; also ON Breslau; see Pelz

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Recorded in:

No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.

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)

Pilz 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, tional name for a gatherer or grower of mushrooms, from Ger. Pilz mushroom (MHG biil(e)z, OHG buliz, from L boletus). Vars.: Piltz. Ger. only: Bilz. Jewish only: Pilzer. Cogns.: Low Ger.: Pils. Pol.: Pile.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

  • In German, pational name for a gatherer or grower of mushrooms,

    as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  • In German, mushroom, fungus

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

  • In German, mushroom

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In pdt, mushroom, fungus, toadstool

    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)

18001850190019502000Vincenz Pilz, b. 1816Margot Pilz, b. 1936Winfried Pilz, b. 1940Michel Pilz, b. 1945Günter Pilz, b. 1945Peter Pilz, b. 1954Hans-Uwe Pilz, b. 1958Dirk Pilz, b. 1972Christiane Pilz, b. 1975Jessica Pilz, b. 1996

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)

FormalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Dear Pilz, (English)
InformalSehr geehrte Damen und Herren,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Pilz
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#8,652
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020729#33,611
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000729#30,292
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010691#33,121
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—119#14,235
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—119#7,167
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—115—
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202494#11,616
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202672—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—72#38,260
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202669—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—69#39,962

Reference works 4

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Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pilz mean, and where does it come from?
from 'mushroom'; also short form of BIL; also ON Breslau; see Pelz Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
How do you pronounce Pilz?
A machine transcription gives /pɪlts/ (IPA) for German.
In which country does Pilz have the most bearers?
Pilz is most frequently recorded in Germany.

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About this data

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pilz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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