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    The surname Kuntz

    A German surname, carried by 10,848 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K532

    Kuntz: #3,307 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kuntz #3,307, 10,848 people Kuntz: #3,307 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kuntz #3,307, 10,848 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kuntz is more common than 98% of them.

    Origin

    German origin

    Borrowed from German Kuntz.

    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 10,848 people named Kuntz in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 28,461 Americans. That is up 0.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 10,788.

    #3,307
    rank among US surnames
    10,848
    people in 2010
    3.7
    per 100,000 Americans
    +0.6%
    change since 2000 (was #3,081)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #3,298Morey10,89428,341
    #3,299Larios10,88728,359
    #3,301Brant10,88628,362
    #3,302Carvalho10,87728,385
    #3,303Miguel10,86128,427
    #3,304Agee10,85728,437
    #3,305Elrod10,85128,453

    Who is named Kuntz

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

    95% of people named Kuntz identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.2% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 95%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Two or more races 1.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.6%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.5%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Cones

    Surnames that sound like Kuntz

    Kuntz has the Soundex code K532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K532.

    Other German surnames

    All 1,101 German surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kuntz come from?
    Borrowed from German Kuntz.
    How common is the surname Kuntz?
    10,848 people in the United States had the surname Kuntz in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 28,461 Americans. It ranked 3,307th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kuntz?
    In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Kuntz identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kuntz getting more or less common?
    More common. 10,788 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 10,848 in 2010, up 0.6%.
    What are other spellings of Kuntz?
    Cones.