Kraft

At the 2020 census, 20,829 Americans bore the surname Kraft — 1,688th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,400.

By the numbers

People: 20,829
Rank: 1,688th
How common: 1 in 14,400
Per 100,000: 7.0

Where the name comes from

From German, Jewish, Swedish and Danish surname, from the noun Kraft (“strength, power”). Compare Croft and Craft.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kraft described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Kraft

Christopher C. Kraft (1924–2019)American aerospace engineer
Stefan Kraft (born 1993)Austrian ski jumper
Thomas Kraft (born 1988)German footballer
Hannelore Kraft (born 1961)German politician
Adam Kraft (1450–1509)German sculptor (15. century)
Robert Kraft (born 1941)American businessman and philanthropist
Robert Kraft (1927–2015)American astronomer
Randy Steven Kraft (born 1945)American serial killer

People named Kraft with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kraft

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.