Crater
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Crater is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,605 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 207K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 207K (inferred from the name graph)
1,605 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Crater
- English:/ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Crater is found
(measured from records)Crater 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.
1,605 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. 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)Crater is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, constellation
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, A basin or bowl for water or for mixing.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, Crater (a constellation)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Kauss, neievērojams zvaigznājs uz dienvidiem no debess ekvatora
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Joseph Force Craterb. 1889USAssociate Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1889–1939)
- Flora Craterb. 1914CRVirginia politician
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Crater mean, and where does it come from?
- A hemispherical pit created by the impact of a meteorite or other object. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Crater?
- In English /ˈkɹeɪ.tə(ɹ)/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Crater have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Crater, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crater.
- Where is Crater most common?
- Crater is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 207 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Crater?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,605 people named Crater in 2010, about 1 in 207 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/craterThe 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, “Crater” — ranked 16899th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.