How common is the surname Kotz?

1,204 people in the United States had the surname Kotz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,433 Americans. It ranked 21,648th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Kotz?

In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kotz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Kotz getting more or less common?

More common. 1,198 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,204 in 2010, up 0.5%.

The surname Kotz

A German surname, carried by 1,204 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). Kotz is more common than 86.7% of them.

Origin

German origin

* As a German surname, from the name Kotsasse, Kotsate (literally “inhabitant of a cottage”), from Middle High German kote, from Middle Low German kōte, from Old Saxon *kota, from Proto-West Germanic *kotā, from Proto-Germanic *kutą. * As a German and Jewish surname, from Kotze (“coarse blanket”). * Also as a German surname Kötz, from the personal name Konrad. * As a Hungarian (Kótz) and German surname, of Slavic origin, from kóc (“untidy hair”) (compare Russian клок (klok, “tuft”)), presumably influenced by the word meaning coarse blanket (as in Polish koc).

One of 1,101 German surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,204 people named Kotz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 256,433 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,198.

#21,648

rank among US surnames

1,204

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

+0.5%

change since 2000 (was #20,565)

Who is named Kotz

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

96% of people named Kotz identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 96%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 0.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%

The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Kotz

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

Other German surnames

All 1,101 German surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Kotz come from?: * As a German surname, from the name Kotsasse, Kotsate (literally “inhabitant of a cottage”), from Middle High German kote, from Middle Low German kōte, from Old Saxon *kota, from Proto-West Germanic *kotā, from Proto-Germanic *kutą. * As a German and Jewish surname, from Kotze (“coarse blanket”).…
How common is the surname Kotz?: 1,204 people in the United States had the surname Kotz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 256,433 Americans. It ranked 21,648th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Kotz?: In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kotz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Kotz getting more or less common?: More common. 1,198 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,204 in 2010, up 0.5%.