Kraš
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: DZS, 2021
Kraš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from kras ‘beauty’, ‘good looks’, a nickname for a handsome person (see Krasny).
- PLPoland1 in 18K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 19K
- NLNetherlands1 in 32K
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 Kraš itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
2,161 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kras in US United States, SI Slovenia.
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)from kras ‘beauty’, ‘good looks’, a nickname for a handsome person (see Krasny).
Cited for this meaning 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kraš 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 2,161 | 1 in 18K | 1.1K | — | — |
| US United States | 1,958as Karst | 1 in 170K | 2K | Kras | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 563 | 1 in 376K | 563 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 536 | 1 in 32K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 222 | 1 in 19K | 222 | Kraš | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 28 | Kras | 4 |
2,161 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 222 | #3,743 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 178 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Kraš mean, and where does it come from?
- from kras ‘beauty’, ‘good looks’, a nickname for a handsome person (see Krasny). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Kraš have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Kraš, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kraš most common?
- Kraš is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 18 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kraš?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,161 people named Kraš in 2026, about 1 in 18 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kra%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, “Kraš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.