Krauss
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a curly-haired person, from German kraus ‘curly’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɹaws/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krauss is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 43K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 48K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Jordan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a curly-haired person, from German kraus ‘curly’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krauss 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Krauss | 6 |
| US United States | 6,865 | 1 in 48K | 6.9K | Krauss | 338 |
| BR Brazil | 1,744 | 1 in 121K | 1.7K | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Krauss | 50 |
| CA Canada | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Krauss | 84 |
| JO Jordan | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Krauss | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 180 | 1 in 47K | 180 | Krauss | 14 |
| IE Ireland | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Krauss | 2 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
- Friedrich Salomon Kraussb. 1859ATAustrian-Jewish sexologist
- Werner Kraussb. 1884DEGerman actor (1884–1959)
- Clemens Kraussb. 1893ATAustrian conductor and opera impresario (1893 - 1954)
- Konrad Kraussb. 1938DEGerman actor
- Rosalind Kraussb. 1941USAmerican art historian
- Lawrence Kraussb. 1954USAmerican particle physicist and cosmologist
- Bernd Kraussb. 1957DEAustrian footballer and manager
- Alison Kraussb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Dan Kraussb. 1973USAmerican documentary filmmaker
- Nicole Kraussb. 1974USAmerican novelist (born 1974)
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 32 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.9K | #5,097 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.8K | #4,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.5K | #5,193 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.7K | #5,537 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 180 | #6,841 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Krauss mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval German and Jewish nickname for a curly-haired person, from German kraus ‘curly’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Krauss?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹaws/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Krauss have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Krauss in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krauss.
- How common is the name Krauss?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,865 people named Krauss in 2010, about 1 in 48 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/kraussThe 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, “Krauss”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.