Kruger

13,356 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kruger in the 2020 census, making it the 2,637th most common in the country. That is about one person in 22,400.

By the numbers

People: 13,356
Rank: 2,637th
How common: 1 in 22,400
Per 100,000: 4.5

Where the name comes from

From German Krüger and Afrikaans Kruger; see Krueger.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Kruger

Diane Kruger (born 1976)German actress
Paul Kruger (1825–1904)South African politician and President of the South African Republic
Hardy Krüger (1928–2022)German actor
Barbara Kruger (born 1945)American conceptual artist
Simen Hegstad Krüger (born 1993)Norwegian cross-country skier
Otto Kruger (1885–1974)American actor
Marcus Krüger (born 1990)Swedish ice hockey player
Luise Krüger (1915–2001)German javelin thrower

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

Surnames like Kruger

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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.