Krais
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɾajʃ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Krais is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 764K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 832K
- BRBrazil1 in 3.5M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 764K (inferred from the name graph)
60 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krais 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.
60 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)- Julius Kraisb. 1807DEGerman author and theologian (1807–1878)
- Friedrich Aaron Kraisb. 1821DE(1821-1907)
- Elisabeth Kraisb. 1851(1851-1907)
- Beate Kraisb. 1944DEGerman sociologist and university teacher
- Boris Kraisb. 1963CZbadminton player
- León de la Torreb. 1969ESnot in their usual nameSpanish diplomat
- Ryann Kraisb. 1990USAmerican heptathlete
- Albert KraisSlalom canoeist
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #92,187 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 27 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 27 | #74,858 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 19 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 19 | #92,669 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 14 | #65,393 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 5 | #168,693 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Krais?
- In Portuguese /kɾajʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Krais have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 60 people named Krais, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Krais most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krais is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 764 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krais?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 60 people named Krais, about 1 in 3.5 million 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/kraisThe 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, “Krais”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.