Krusen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch Cruyssen (see Crusan), or a North German cognate of this
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Krusen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 520Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.3Mfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 148 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 332K (inferred from the name graph)
248 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch Cruyssen (see Crusan), or a North German cognate of this.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Krusen is found
(measured from records)Krusen 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 | 248 | 1 in 1.3M | 248 | Krusen | 148 |
| DE Germany | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 517K | — | Krusen | 42 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Krusen | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Krusen | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Krusen | 2 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 332K | — | Krusen | 1 |
248 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. 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)Krusen 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 Western Frisian, plural of krús
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)- Frank H. Krusenb. 1898USAmerican physician
- Dave Krusenb. 1966USAmerican drummer
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krusen mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably an Americanized spelling of Dutch Cruyssen (see Crusan), or a North German cognate of this. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Krusen?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 248 people named Krusen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krusen. After it come Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Krusen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 248 people named Krusen in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Krusen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krusenThe 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, “Krusen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.