Krug

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Krug is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In Qatar it is the 49th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Related surname base; plate section shows simplified forms without -er and the u-vowel type.

rarermore common
  • DEGermany≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 42K
  • NPNepal1 in 56as Gurung

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 Krug 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.

Nepal (measured from records)

543,790 named Gurung, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
345 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Germany, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KrugLatin(measured from records)
กรุงThai(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gurung in NP Nepal, IN India, QA Qatar and 3 more.

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)

Related surname base; plate section shows simplified forms without -er and the u-vowel type. 7420 tokens.

Sources 1

  • Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Krug 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.

Where Krug is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal#781543,790as Gurung1 in 56544KGurung140
IN India—27,320as Gurung1 in 49K27KGurung97
DE Germany#309≈17,000 est.≈1 in 4.6KlistedKrug170
US United States—7,8271 in 42K14KKrug345
HK Hong Kong#159≈6,600 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Gurung36
AE United Arab Emirates#92≈6,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Gurung58
QA Qatar#49≈4,300 est.≈1 in 572—Gurung23
BH Bahrain#136≈790 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Gurung13

543,790 people counted by NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only, 2021. 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: NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the dfa-band-1 register. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Krug is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Chile

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Krüg

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Switzerland

    Also written Kroug

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Krüg

  • Polish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Krúg

  • Croatian surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Круг, Krüg

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Krug 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, Occupational surname: potter/jug maker; bearer count not given on this page.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of mugs and jugs, from Middle High German kruoc ‘jug’, ‘drinking vessel’; alternatively, mostly in southern and eastern Germany, a nickname for a heavy drinker.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • occupational nickname for a tavern keeper, from Krug ‘inn’, ‘tavern’ , especially in northern Germany.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In German, Indirekter Berufsname zu mhd. kruoc 'Krug'; wohl Töpfer oder Krug-/Gefäßhändler. Bearer count: 7370.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen

  • In German, Indirekter Berufsname für einen Wirt oder Krughersteller/-händler; Plate zeigt o/u-Vokalvariation.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

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)

17001800190020002100Wilhelm Traugott Krug, b. 1770Arnold Krug, b. 1849Julius Albert Krug, b. 1907Heinrich Krug, b. 1911Manfred Krug, b. 1937Hellmut Krug, b. 1956Barbara Krug, b. 1956Fanny Krug, b. 1970Torey Krug, b. 1991Lilly Krug, b. 2001

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 31 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Krug
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020007.9K#4,174
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020107.8K#4,531
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020207.3K#4,684
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Krug come from?
Related surname base; plate section shows simplified forms without -er and the u-vowel type. 7420 tokens. Recorded by Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus.
What does the name Krug mean?
Recorded meaning: Related surname base; plate section shows simplified forms without -er and the u-vowel type.
What are other forms of the name Krug?
In the etymology graph, Crock is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Krug have the most bearers?
In Nepal, the national register counted about 544 thousand people named Gurung, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Krug?
In the United States, the national register counted 7,827 people named Krug in 2010, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
How common is Krug compared with other names?
In Nepal, Krug is the 781st most common surname of 25,881 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Krug” — the 781st most common surname in Nepal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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