# Gratz (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/gratz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,305 |
| US rank (2010) | 20,364 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 236,587 people |
| Change since 2000 | -31.7% (1,910 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From the German surname, from the city Graz in Austria. Also from a personal name from Old High German gratag (“greedy”), which could ultimately be from Proto-West Germanic *gernō; see Dutch gretig (“eager”). Also shortened from Pankratz.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Gratz in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 96% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.9% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 0.7% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Gratz in Austria and the United States.

## People named Gratz

- Leopold Gratz, Austrian diplomat and politician, Mayor of Vienna (1929-2006)
- Rebecca Gratz, American writer (1781–1869)

## Similar surnames

Goertz, Gertz, Greathouse, Gerdes, Garretson, Gewirtz.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.