Kruz
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹuz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kruz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 171K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 418K
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 Kruz 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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 113 (measured from records)
- 1 in 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kruez in NZ New Zealand.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kruz 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 461K | — | Kruz | 4 |
| IN India | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Kruz | 8 |
| PL Poland | 224 | 1 in 171K | 117 | — | 1 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 1.4K | Kruz | 113 |
| BR Brazil | 47 | 1 in 4.5M | 47 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1M | 1 | Kruz | 25 |
| BE Belgium | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 418K | — | Kruz | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 859K | 11 | Kruez | 11 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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)
- Pedro Infante Sr.b. 1917MXnot in their usual nameMexican actor and singer (1917-1957)
- Celia Cruzb. 1925CUnot in their usual nameCuban singer (1925–2003)
- Camarón de la Islab. 1950ESnot in their usual nameSpanish flamenco singer (1950–1992)
- Manuel Marrero Cruzb. 1963CUnot in their usual namePrime Minister of the Republic of Cuba
- Ted Cruzb. 1970CAnot in their usual nameAmerican politician (born 1970)
- Penélope Cruzb. 1974ESnot in their usual nameSpanish actress (born 1974)
- Ulises Cruzb. 1974ECnot in their usual nameEcuadorian footballer and politician
- Taio Cruzb. 1980GBnot in their usual nameBritish singer and songwriter
- Dominick Cruzb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican mixed martial artist (born 1985)
- Oliver Cruzb. 2004MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 126 | #137,553 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 117 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 117 | #26,397 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 107 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 107 | #27,967 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 47 | #109,451 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kruz?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹuz/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kruz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 464 people named Kruz in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kruz.
- Where is Kruz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kruz is densest in Poland — about 1 in 171 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kruz?
- In Poland, the national register counted 224 people named Kruz in 2026, about 1 in 171 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kruz?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kruzThe 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, “Kruz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.