as a Last Name
- 24,074
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kraft
Meaning & Origins
German (also Kräft), Danish, Swedish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a strong man, from Old High German kraft, German Kraft ‘strength’, ‘power’. The Swedish name probably originated as a soldier's name. In part the German and Danish names possibly also derive from a late survival of the same word used as a byname, Old High German Chraft(o), Old Norse Kraptr.
| 1,506th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 24,074
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Guam
- has the most people named Kraft per capita
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