Krahn
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A member of an ethnic group from Liberia and Ivory Coast
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɹæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krahn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Seychelles it is the 27th most common surname.
- CACanada≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 33K
- USUnited States1 in 121K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 240 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
2,741 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Seychelles, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)nickname for a slim or long-legged person, from Middle Low German krane ‘crane’. Compare Kranich.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Krahn is read
(measured from records)Krahn is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English69%
A member of an ethnic group from Liberia and Ivory Coast
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
long., Liberia, Ivory Coast
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- German14%
nickname for a slim or long-legged person, from Middle Low German krane ‘crane’. Compare Kranich.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
- Spanish8.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Krahn in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krahn 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 | — | 2,741 | 1 in 121K | 2.7K | Krahn | 240 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Krahn | 114 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Krahn | 138 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Krahn | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Krahn | 35 |
| SC Seychelles | #27 | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Krahn | 2 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Krahn | 1 |
2,741 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Edgar Krahnb. 1894EEEstonian mathematician (1894–1961)
- Maria Krahnb. 1896DEGerman actress (1896-1977)
- Fernando Krahnb. 1935CLcartoonist (1935-2010)
- Wolfgang Krahnb. 1939DEGerman amateur botanist
- Art Krahnb. 1951CAbadminton player
- Brent Krahnb. 1982CACanadian ice hockey player
- Annike Krahnb. 1985DEGerman association football player
- Murray Krahnb. 2000CAresearcher
- Elijah Krahnb. 2003DEGerman footballer
- Betina KrahnUSAmerican writer
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)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.7K | #11,478 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.4K | #11,994 |
| 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 Krahn come from?
- nickname for a slim or long-legged person, from Middle Low German krane ‘crane’. Compare Kranich. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krahn?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹæn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Krahn mean?
- In English, A member of an ethnic group from Liberia and Ivory Coast
- In which country does Krahn have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.7 thousand people named Krahn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krahn.
- How common is the name Krahn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,741 people named Krahn in 2010, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
- How common is Krahn compared with other names?
- In the Seychelles, Krahn is the 27th most common surname of 2,002 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krahnThe 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, “Krahn” — the 27th most common surname in Seychelles. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.