Kruk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: nickname (Polish) or ornamental name (Jewish), from Polish kruk ‘raven’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kruk/(machine-generated) Ukrainian · model-generated · read from крук
Kruk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 1.8K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 39K
- ARArgentina1 in 106K
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 Kruk 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
21,818 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Крук in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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)nickname (Polish) or ornamental name (Jewish), from Polish kruk ‘raven’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kruk is found
(measured from records)Kruk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #147 | 21,818 | 1 in 1.8K | 11K | Kruk | 126 |
| US United States | — | 14,526as Crook | 1 in 23K | 15K | Kruk | 88 |
| UA Ukraine | #599 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Крук | 44 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Крук | 132 |
| BY Belarus | #206 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Крук | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 958as Krag | 1 in 6.1K | 958 | — | 1 |
| NO Norway | — | 352as Krag | 1 in 16K | 352 | Kruk | 7 |
21,818 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)Kruk 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 Polish, raven, especially the common raven (Corvus corax)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Berufsname: meist zu mnd. kruke 'Krug'; am Niederrhein und im Ruhrgebiet gehäuft, mit Nest um Recklinghausen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Indirekter Berufsname zu mhd. kruoc 'Krug'; wohl Töpfer oder Krug-/Gefäßhändler. Bearer count: 248.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Dutch, stool (piece of furniture without back or armrests)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, pitcher, jug
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)- Joseph Krukb. 1885ILYiddish journalist and Polish politician (1885-1972)
- Halyna Krukb. 1974UAUkrainian poet
- Michał Krukb. 1979PLPolish actor
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)35 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kruk mean, and where does it come from?
- nickname (Polish) or ornamental name (Jewish), from Polish kruk ‘raven’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kruk?
- It depends on the language: in Ukrainian /kruk/; in Polish /ˈkruk/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kruk?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Kruk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kruk. After it come United States, Ukraine, Russia and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kruk most common?
- Kruk is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kruk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 21,818 people named Kruk in 2026, about 1 in 1.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Kruk compared with other names?
- In Poland, Kruk is the 147th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kruk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krukThe 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, “Kruk” — the 147th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.