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    The surname Kreft

    A surname, carried by 1,175 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K613

    Kreft: #22,056 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Kreft #22,056, 1,175 people Kreft: #22,056 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Kreft #22,056, 1,175 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kreft is more common than 86.4% of them.

    Origin

    A surname.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,175 people named Kreft in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 262,762 Americans. That is up 9.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,073.

    #22,056
    rank among US surnames
    1,175
    people in 2010
    0.4
    per 100,000 Americans
    +9.5%
    change since 2000 (was #22,384)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #22,047Whistler1,176262,539
    #22,056Hopf1,175262,762

    Who is named Kreft

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

    96% of people named Kreft identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 96%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Native American, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Surnames that sound like Kreft

    Kreft has the Soundex code K613, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K613.

    Questions

    How common is the surname Kreft?
    1,175 people in the United States had the surname Kreft in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 262,762 Americans. It ranked 22,056th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kreft?
    In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Kreft identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kreft getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,073 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,175 in 2010, up 9.5%.