How common is the surname Craft?

31,452 people in the United States had the surname Craft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,816 Americans. It ranked 1,116th of 162,253 surnames.

Who is the most famous person named Craft?

Kelly Craft, American businesswoman and diplomat (born 1962), followed by Robert Craft.

Where is the surname Craft most common?

Wikidata records people named Craft in the United States.

Is the surname Craft getting more or less common?

More common. 30,653 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,452 in 2010, up 2.6%.

The surname Craft

A surname, carried by 31,452 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex C613

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Craft is more common than 99.3% of them.

Origin

* As an English surname, from the noun craft. * Also as an English surname, from Croft in Leicestershire. * As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Swedish surname, Americanized from Kraft.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 31,452 people named Craft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 9,816 Americans. That is up 2.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 30,653.

#1,116

rank among US surnames

31,452

people in 2010

per 100,000 Americans

+2.6%

change since 2000 (was #1,044)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#1,107	Springer	31,643	9,757
#1,108	Pickett	31,611	9,767
#1,109	Aguilera	31,581	9,776
#1,110	Carrasco	31,575	9,778
#1,112	Donahue	31,563	9,782
#1,113	Kinney	31,558	9,783
#1,114	Donnelly	31,505	9,800

Who is named Craft

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

81% of people named Craft identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 1.9% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 81%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Two or more races 1.9%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Crafts

5 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Kelly Craft
American businesswoman and diplomat (born 1962)
Robert Craft
American conductor and writer (1923-2015)
Aaron Craft
American basketball player (born 1991)
Coy Craft
American soccer player, born 1997
Gretchen Rubin
American writer and lawyer, born 1965

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Variant spellings

Kraft

Surnames that sound like Craft

Craft has the Soundex code C613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C613.

Questions

Where does the surname Craft come from?: * As an English surname, from the noun craft. * Also as an English surname, from Croft in Leicestershire. * As a German, Jewish, Danish, and Swedish surname, Americanized from Kraft.
How common is the surname Craft?: 31,452 people in the United States had the surname Craft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 9,816 Americans. It ranked 1,116th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Craft?: In the 2010 Census, 81% of people named Craft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
Who is the most famous person named Craft?: Kelly Craft, American businesswoman and diplomat (born 1962), followed by Robert Craft.
Where is the surname Craft most common?: Wikidata records people named Craft in the United States.
Is the surname Craft getting more or less common?: More common. 30,653 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 31,452 in 2010, up 2.6%.
What are other spellings of Craft?: Kraft.