Kruge
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dative singular of Krug
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries
/kɾuɠe/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Kruge is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 51K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.2M
- USUnited States≈1 in 4.6Mfew records
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.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)
108 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)dative singular of Krug
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kruge 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | 108 | 1 in 51K | 108 | Kruge | 6 |
| BR Brazil | 96 | 1 in 2.2M | 96 | Kruge | 7 |
| US United States | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | listed | Kruge | 58 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | — | Kruge | 20 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Kruge | 3 |
108 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)- Oddvar Krugeb. 1926NONorwegian association football player (1926-2015)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 108 | #14,270 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 96 | #65,319 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kruge mean, and where does it come from?
- dative singular of Krug Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kruge?
- It depends on the language: in Swahili /kɾuɠe/; in Spanish /kruxe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kruge have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 108 people named Kruge, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kruge.
- Where is Kruge most common?
- Kruge is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 51 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kruge?
- In Norway, the national register counted 108 people named Kruge, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kruge?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krugeThe 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, “Kruge”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.