How common is the surname Kautz?

3,699 people in the United States had the surname Kautz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,467 Americans. It ranked 8,858th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kautz?

In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kautz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kautz getting more or less common?

Less common. 3,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,699 in 2010, down 4.0%.

The surname Kautz

A surname, carried by 3,699 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex K320

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kautz is more common than 94.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,699 people named Kautz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,467 Americans. That is down 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,853.

#8,858

rank among US surnames

3,699

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

-4%

change since 2000 (was #7,966)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,850	Dunston	3,702	83,400
#8,853	Marano	3,701	83,422
#8,854	Breault	3,700	83,445
#8,858	Kautz	3,699	83,467
#8,860	Licea	3,698	83,490
#8,861	Barbera	3,696	83,535
#8,862	Lutes	3,695	83,558

Who is named Kautz

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Kautz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 94%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.8%
Two or more races 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kautz

Kautz has the Soundex code K320, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K320.

Questions

How common is the surname Kautz?: 3,699 people in the United States had the surname Kautz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,467 Americans. It ranked 8,858th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kautz?: In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Kautz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.8% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kautz getting more or less common?: Less common. 3,853 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,699 in 2010, down 4.0%.