Kroh
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname for someone thought to resemble a crow in some way, from Middle High German krd ‘crow’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kroh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 39K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 353K
- CNChina≈1 in 98K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
nickname for someone thought to resemble a crow in some way, from Middle High German krd ‘crow’. Compare Krage.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kroh 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Kroh | 3 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Kroh | 85 |
| US United States | 943 | 1 in 353K | 968 | Kroh | 175 |
| AR Argentina | 233 | 1 in 195K | 233 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 365K | — | Kroh | 2 |
| CZ Czechia | 53 | 1 in 202K | 53 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Kroh | 3 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the dfa-band-1 register; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kroh is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Aus mhd. krā 'Krähe' durch Verdumpfung ā > ō; persönliches Merkmal. Bearer count: 970.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Khmer, n, a s p e c i e s of trout-like fish (possibly Notopterus chitala), [no
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In Khmer, n, small two-edged knife. {Malay: k^ris.)
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Karl Krohb. 1822ATGerman photographer (1822–1886)
- Heinz Krohb. 1881DEGerman painter (1881-1972)
- Rube Krohb. 1886USbaseball player (1886-1944)
- Oswald Krohb. 1887DEGerman educationist and psychologist (1887–1955)
- Hans Krohb. 1907DE1907-1967, German Fallschirmjäger and general in the Bundeswehr
- Jerzy Krohb. 1924PLPolish chemist (1924-2016)
- Aleksandra Krohb. 1939PLPolish/French physicist and writer
- Lothar W. Krohb. 1951DEGerman professor of food chemistry
- Andreas Krohb. 1984DEGerman researcher (Medicine, ORCID 0000-0002-7836-7844)
- Paula Krohb. 1995DEGerman actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 968 | #26,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 943 | #26,008 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 899 | #25,735 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 233 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 53 | #27,897 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 53 | #10,355 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Kroh come from?
- nickname for someone thought to resemble a crow in some way, from Middle High German krd ‘crow’. Compare Krage. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kroh?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kroh mean?
- Recorded meaning: nickname for someone thought to resemble a crow in some way, from Middle High German krd ‘crow’.
- In which country does Kroh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Kroh in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kroh.
- How common is the name Kroh?
- In the United States, the national register counted 943 people named Kroh in 2010, about 1 in 353 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krohThe 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, “Kroh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.