# Kravitz (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/kravitz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from the Slavic languages.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,938 |
| US rank (2010) | 10,837 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 105,087 people |
| Change since 2000 | +2.6% (2,863 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Kravec, Kravets, Kravetz, Kravietz, Krawiec, Krawietz, Krawitz |

## Etymology

From a Slavic language, e.g. Belarusian кравец (kravjec, “tailor”), Ukrainian кравець (kravecʹ, “tailor”), Slovak kravec (“tailor”), or Polish krawiec (“tailor”). Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kravьcь (compare *krojiti (“to cut”)).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Kravitz in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.7% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.8% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.4% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Kravitz in the United States.

## People named Kravitz

- Lenny Kravitz, American guitarist and singer (born 1964)
- Zoë Kravitz, American actress, director, singer and model (born 1988)

## Similar surnames

Kravetz, Kravets, Kraft, Krafft, Karapetyan, Kreft, Kroft.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.