Zotz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To murder, knock off
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zoʊts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zotz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- ATAustria≈1 in 61K
- DEGermany≈1 in 180K
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
- 113 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To murder, knock off.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zotz 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 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Zotz | 54 |
| US United States | 207 | 1 in 1.6M | 207 | Zotz | 113 |
| AT Austria | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Zotz | 17 |
| BR Brazil | 29 | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | Zotz | 21 |
| PL Poland | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Zotz | 1 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 306K | — | Zotz | 1 |
| PA Panama | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 384K | — | Zotz | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | 8 | 1 in 1.1M | 8 | — | 1 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Zotz 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 Basque, toothpick
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, stick
as a wordTrask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
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)
- Alois Zotzb. 1814USAmerican author, translator, journalist and publisher (1814-1893)
- Kurt Zotzb. 1899DEGerman author
- Thomas Zotzb. 1944DEGerman medievalist
- Werner Zotzb. 1947BRBrazilian writer
- Volker Zotzb. 1956ATAustrian religious studies scholar
- Gerhard Zotzb. 1960DEGerman botanist
- Thomas Zotzb. 1964DEGerman author
- Bertram Zotzb. 1968ATAustrian theologian
- Birgit Zotzb. 1979ATAustrian writer and anthropologist
- Abby Zotzb. 2000CACanadian musician and actress
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 207 | #89,403 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 193 | #100,083 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 178 | #95,091 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 29 | #152,390 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Zotz mean, and where does it come from?
- To murder, knock off. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Zotz?
- A machine transcription gives /zoʊts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zotz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 444 people named Zotz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zotz.
- How common is the name Zotz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 207 people named Zotz in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Zotz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zotzThe 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, “Zotz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.