as a Last Name
- 2,162
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Putz
Meaning & Origins
South German: 1. (Austria, Bavaria): topographic name for someone who lived by a well, putz (Latin puteus). 2. (Pütz; Rhineland): from pütz ‘well’ (see 1), or a habitational name from a place so named in Luxembourg. 3. (Austria): from a pet form of the personal name Burghard. 4. nickname from a byname for the devil. See also Butz.
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,162
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Iowa
- has the most people named Putz per capita
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