The Kuentz surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 120 people carried this name — #139,228 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted. That is up 3% from 116 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 598 people named Kuentz.
6 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 40 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
54 people named Kuentz live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Basel-Landschaft.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Kuentz in American newspapers,
1876–1926.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 255 pages in all carry the name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Kuentz.
- Kuchta 1,925 · U.S. census
- Kuczynski 1,559 · U.S. census
- Kuder 951 · U.S. census
- Kudla 1,002 · U.S. census
- Kuehn 7,181 · U.S. census
- Kuen 183 · U.S. census
- Kueny 443 · U.S. census
- Kugel 1,080 · U.S. census
- Kugler 4,015 · U.S. census
- Kuhl 5,872 · U.S. census
- Kuhlmann 2,981 · U.S. census
- Kuhn 31,776 · U.S. census
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