Kroupa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from kroupa ‘pearl barley’, probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a mill or for a grain dealer
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɹupə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kroupa is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- CZCzechia
- USUnited States
- HRCroatia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from kroupa ‘pearl barley’, probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a mill or for a grain dealer.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Kroupa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, hulled grain
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)- Gustav Kroupab. 1857ATCzech-Austrian mining engineer
- Wilhelm Kroupab. 1911ATAustrian architect (1911-1992)
- Zdeněk Kroupab. 1921CZCzech opera singer
- Daniel Kroupab. 1949CZCzech member of Czech Parliament (1996–1998), senator of Czech Parliament, politician, philosopher and university educator
- Karel Kroupab. 1950CZCzech soccer player
- Petr Kroupab. 1953CZCzech art historian and heritage conservator
- Pavel Kroupab. 1963AUAustralian astrophysicist
- Patrick K. Kroupab. 1969USAmerican writer, hacker, and activist
- Vlastimil Kroupab. 1975CZCzech professional ice hockey defenceman
- Karel Kroupab. 1980CZCzech soccer 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)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 2.7K | #395 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 2.7K | #395 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.7K | #396 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 946 | #24,724 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 917 | #27,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 893 | #27,110 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 86 | #8,957 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 78 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 75 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 16 | #15,345 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Kroupa mean, and where does it come from?
- from kroupa ‘pearl barley’, probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who worked in a mill or for a grain dealer. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kroupa?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹupə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kroupa have the most bearers?
- Kroupa is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kroupaThe 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, “Kroupa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.