Kitz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. from the Austrian dialect word Kitz ‘kid’, ‘fawn’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised or tended goats
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kɪt͡s/(recorded in a dictionary) German · from Wiktionary
Kitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- ATAustria≈1 in 26Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 120Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 290Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈710 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1. from the Austrian dialect word Kitz ‘kid’, ‘fawn’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised or tended goats. 2. from a German personal name beginning with Gid-, cognate with Anglo-Saxon gidd ‘song’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kitz 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 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Kitz | 61 |
| US United States | 390 | 1 in 853K | 445 | Kitz | 154 |
| AT Austria | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Kitz | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Kitz | 52 |
| IN India | ≈73 est. | ≈1 in 20M | — | Kitz | 5 |
| SG Singapore | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 343K | — | Kitz | 4 |
| BZ Belize | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Kitz | 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)Kitz is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, fawn (a baby deer, goat, chamois or ibex)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, from ahd. chizzo 'young goat, gazelle, roe'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Clara
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)- Arnold Kitzb. 1807DEGerman politician and jurist (1807-1874)
- Marcin Kitzb. 1891PLpainter (1891-1943)
- Leonard Arthur Kitzb. 1916CACanadian politician
- Janet Kitzb. 1930CACanadian historian (1930–2019)
- Chaelynn Kitzb. 1997Canadian curler
- Anne Marie Kitzbiblical scholar, lecturer
- Dennis J. Kitzbotanist
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 445 | #50,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 418 | #47,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 390 | #53,072 |
| 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
- Where does the name Kitz come from?
- 1. from the Austrian dialect word Kitz ‘kid’, ‘fawn’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised or tended goats. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kitz?
- In German /kɪt͡s/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Kitz mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. from the Austrian dialect word Kitz ‘kid’, ‘fawn’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who raised or tended goats.
- In which country does Kitz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 706 people named Kitz in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kitz.
- How common is the name Kitz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 390 people named Kitz in 2010, about 1 in 853 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/kitzThe 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, “Kitz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.