Krausse
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈkɹɔs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krausse is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: variant of Krause.
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 43Kas Krauße
- CFCentral African Republic≈1 in 8.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Krausse itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 named Krauße, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Central African Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Krauße 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)- Middle High Germankrūs“frizzy”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Proto-Germanic*kruzlǭ“bent or crooked object“bent or crooked object, curl”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Pre-Germanic*grus-(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
- Proto-Indo-European*gurus-“twist“twist, curl”(inferred from the name graph)via Kraus
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
variant of Krause.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krausse 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 | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Krauße | 75 |
| CF Central African Republic | #469 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Krausse | 1 |
| US United States | — | 308 | 1 in 1.1M | 315 | Krausse | 140 |
| AR Argentina | — | 199 | 1 in 229K | 199 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Krausse | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 692K | — | Krausse | 9 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 726K | — | Krausse | 1 |
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: the dfa-band-1 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)- Hugo Krausseb. 1871architect
- Lew Krausse, Jr.b. 1943USAmerican baseball player
- Dirk Kraußeb. 1962DEnot in their usual nameGerman prehistorian
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 315 | #59,916 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 308 | #64,559 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 301 | #70,147 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 199 | — |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| 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 Krausse mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Krause. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krausse?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɔs/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Krausse have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Krauße in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Krausse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 308 people named Krausse in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Krausse compared with other names?
- In the Central African Republic, Krausse is the 469th most common surname of 1,109 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krausseThe 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, “Krausse” — the 469th most common surname in Central African Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.