as a Last Name
- 4,829
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kranz
Meaning & Origins
German: from Middle High German kranz ‘garland’, ‘wreath’; a metonymic occupational name for a maker of chaplets and wreaths, a habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of a garland, or a nickname for someone whose hair was tonsured.
| 6,141st in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,829
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- South Dakota
- has the most people named Kranz per capita
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