Kraker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. nickname for a noisy person, from kraken ‘to make noise’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹeɪkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kraker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 189K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 24K
- ATAustria≈1 in 79K
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)
- Sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
1,760 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kräker in DE Germany.
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)
1. nickname for a noisy person, from kraken ‘to make noise’. 2. Debrabandere also suggests that it may be an occupational name for a hangman, from a derivative of Middle Dutch craghe ‘neck’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kraker 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 | 1,760 | 1 in 189K | 1.8K | Kraker | 211 |
| EG Egypt | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 322K | — | Kraker | 4 |
| BR Brazil | 131 | 1 in 1.6M | 131 | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 682K | — | Kräker | 33 |
| AT Austria | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Kraker | 32 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 280K | — | Kraker | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 89 | 1 in 24K | 89 | — | 2 |
| HR Croatia | 51 | 1 in 83K | 51 | — | — |
1,760 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Kraker is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, one who cracks or an instrument used to crack
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, A cracker
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, diseur de craques
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Josef Krakerb. 1875ATAustrian priest
- Johann Krakerb. 1909ATAustrian teacher and politician (1909-1988)
- Francie Kraker Goodridgeb. 1947USAmerican track and field athlete
- Margit Krakerb. 1960ATAustrian jurist, President of the Austrian Court of Audit
- Vanessa Krakerb. 2003ATAustrian association football player
- Mirko KrakerSIcyclist
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 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.8K | #16,362 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 818 | #27,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 755 | #32,616 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 131 | #51,558 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 89 | #4,877 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 51 | #13,061 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Kraker come from?
- 1. nickname for a noisy person, from kraken ‘to make noise’. 2. Debrabandere also suggests that it may be an occupational name for a hangman, from a derivative of Middle Dutch craghe ‘neck’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kraker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹeɪkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kraker mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. nickname for a noisy person, from kraken ‘to make noise’.
- What are other forms of the name Kraker?
- In the etymology graph, Kraak is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kraker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kraker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kraker.
- Where is Kraker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kraker is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 24 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kraker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,760 people named Kraker in 2010, about 1 in 189 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/krakerThe 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, “Kraker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.