Krausé
surname · Latin script
Krausé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country, where it is the 32nd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Variant of Kraus (“curly-haired”).
- DEGermany≈1 in 840(inferred from the name graph)
- AGAntigua & Barbuda≈1 in 4.6Kfew records
- IEIreland≈1 in 7.4Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krausé itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 450 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 837 (inferred from the name graph)
≈100,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Krause in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle High Germankrūs“frizzy”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Proto-Germanic*kruzlǭ“bent or crooked object“bent or crooked object, curl”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Pre-Germanic*grus-(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Proto-Indo-European*gurus-“twist“twist, curl”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Kraus (“curly-haired”).
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Krausé is found
(measured from records)Krausé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #32 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 837 | listed | Krause | 237 |
| US United States | #869 | 74,503as Gross | 1 in 4.5K | 75K | Krause | 450 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,824as Gross | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Krause | 110 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,761 | 1 in 8K | 2.5K | Krause | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | #950 | 2,726as Gross | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | Krause | 47 |
| IE Ireland | #810 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Krause | 19 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #91 | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Krause | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krausé mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Kraus (“curly-haired”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 1 other source.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Krausé?
- Mondonomo estimates about 100 thousand people named Krausé in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krause. After it come United States, Brazil, United Kingdom and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Krausé?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,761 people named Krausé in 2026, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Krausé compared with other names?
- In Germany, Krausé is the 32nd most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kraus%C3%A9The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Krausé” — the 32nd most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.