Kraut
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Occupational surname: grower of vegetables/greens; from dialectal Kraut 'cabbage, herbs, greens'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɹaʊt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kraut is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 36K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 103K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 233K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
1,073 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
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)Occupational surname: grower of vegetables/greens; from dialectal Kraut 'cabbage, herbs, greens'. Bearer count: 1561.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kraut 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 | 1,073 | 1 in 310K | 1.2K | Kraut | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 104 | 1 in 103K | 104 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 67 | 1 in 571K | 35 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 65 | 1 in 3.3M | 65 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 58 | 1 in 36K | 58 | Kraut | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 36 | 1 in 233K | 36 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 18 | 1 in 304K | 18 | — | — |
1,073 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Kraut is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from 'plant/herb', 'medicinal herb', or 'powder'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, from a herb/plant nickname; 'herb, cabbage'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In German, metonymic occupational name for a market gardener or a herbalist, from Middle High German krut ‘herb’, ‘plant’,‘cabbage’. It is also found in eastern Slovenia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, ornamental or metonymic occupational name from German Kraut ‘herb’, ‘cabbage’ .
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, herb; useful plant (plant used to flavour food, or for medicinal effect)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Johann Andreas Krautb. 1661DEGerman politician (1661-1723)
- Heinrich Krautb. 1857DEGerman politician (1857-1935)
- Georg Krautb. 1870German military officer (1870–1964)
- Karl Krautb. 1889DEGerman politician (1889-1968)
- François Krautb. 1907ATFrench university teacher (1907-1983)
- Richard Krautb. 1944USAmerican philosopher (born 1944)
- Robert E. Krautb. 1946USAmerican social psychologist
- Laura Krautb. 1965USequestrian
- Walter Krautb. 1973NLDutch writer
- Dominik Krautb. 1990CZCzech association football player
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,359 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,634 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 104 | #16,152 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 103 | #7,649 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 65 | #86,981 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 58 | #6,867 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 36 | #23,866 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 35 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 35 | #63,117 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #67,347 |
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 Kraut come from?
- Occupational surname: grower of vegetables/greens; from dialectal Kraut 'cabbage, herbs, greens'. Bearer count: 1561. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen.
- How do you pronounce Kraut?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹaʊt/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kraut mean?
- Recorded meaning: Occupational surname: grower of vegetables/greens; from dialectal Kraut 'cabbage, herbs, greens'.
- In which country does Kraut have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kraut, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kraut.
- Where is Kraut most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kraut is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kraut?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,073 people named Kraut in 2010, about 1 in 310 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krautThe 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, “Kraut”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.