The Krafft surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,211 people carried this name — #21,553 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 243,900 people counted. That is up 4% from 1,165 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 498 people named Krafft.
19 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 37 départements, most often Haut-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 93 people named Krafft live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
78 people named Krafft live in Switzerland.
They live in 9 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
321 people named Krafft is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Krafft,
with a public archive behind them.
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Peter Krafft d. 1475 · goldsmith
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Heinrich Krafft d. 1342 · Catholic priest
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Georg Peter Krafft d. 1756
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Bartholomaeus Krafft d. 1490
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Catharina Krafft d. 1593
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Dominicus Krafft 1250–1298
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Krafft.
- Koziel 801 · U.S. census
- Koziol 3,194 · U.S. census
- Kozlowski 10,358 · U.S. census
- Kozma 1,294 · U.S. census
- Kracher 137 · U.S. census
- Kraemer 7,726 · U.S. census
- Kraft 22,035 · U.S. census
- Krahenbuhl 484 · U.S. census
- Krajewski 3,416 · U.S. census
- Krakowiak 366 · U.S. census
- Krakowski 962 · U.S. census
- Kramer 63,936 · U.S. census
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