Kruš
surname · Latin script
Kruš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Kraus.
- USUnited States1 in 995as Cruz(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 59K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 167as Cruz
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kruš 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
334,201 named Cruz, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Cruz in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador and Kruś in PL Poland.
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.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kruš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 334,201as Cruz | 1 in 995 | 343K | Cruz | 72 |
| AR Argentina | 95,805as Cruz | 1 in 475 | 96K | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | 78,630as Cruz | 1 in 636 | 79K | Cruz | 28 |
| EC Ecuador | 66,309as Cruz | 1 in 255 | 66K | Cruz | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | 30,537as Cruz | 1 in 167 | 31K | — | — |
| PL Poland | 645 | 1 in 59K | 328 | Kruś | 31 |
334,201 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Kruš mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kraus. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Kruš have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 334 thousand people named Cruz, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kruš most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kruš is densest in Poland — about 1 in 59 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kruš?
- In Poland, the national register counted 645 people named Kruš in 2026, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kru%C5%A1The 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, “Kruš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.