Krahl
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ahd. Graloh/Cralo, perhaps from a Germanic stem
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kʁaːl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krahl is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 286K
- DKDenmark1 in 326K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 110 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ahd. Graloh/Cralo, perhaps from a Germanic stem
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krahl 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 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Krahl | 110 |
| US United States | 466 | 1 in 714K | 519 | Krahl | 75 |
| BR Brazil | 312 | 1 in 679K | 312 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 716K | — | Krahl | 8 |
| PL Poland | 89 | 1 in 430K | 49 | Krahl | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Krahl | 9 |
| AT Austria | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 286K | — | Krahl | 13 |
| DK Denmark | 18 | 1 in 326K | 18 | — | — |
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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Krahl is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, variant of Kreul or a Germanized spelling of Slavic Kral.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Ernst Krahlb. 1867DEGerman teacher
- Karl-Heinz Krahlb. 1914PLGerman fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient (1914-1942)
- Hilde Krahlb. 1917ATAustrian actress (1917–1999)
- Toni Krahlb. 1949DEGerman actor
- Bianca Krahlb. 1973DEGerman actress and voice actress
- Andreas Krahlb. 1989DEGerman politician
- Leonie Krahlb. 1991DEGerman actress
- Johannes Krahlb. 1999DEGerman organist
- Julian Krahlb. 2000DEfootball player
- Judith Krahlb. 2001DEcyclist from Germany
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 519 | #39,824 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 502 | #45,838 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 466 | #45,804 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 312 | #25,556 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 49 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 49 | #50,950 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 40 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 40 | #57,861 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 18 | #25,831 |
| 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
- What does the name Krahl mean, and where does it come from?
- from ahd. Graloh/Cralo, perhaps from a Germanic stem Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Krahl?
- A machine transcription gives /kʁaːl/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Krahl have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Krahl in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krahl.
- How common is the name Krahl?
- In the United States, the national register counted 466 people named Krahl in 2010, about 1 in 714 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Krahl?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krahlThe 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, “Krahl”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.