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    The surname Kroes

    A Dutch surname, carried by 519 people in the United States.

    1 syllable Soundex K620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kroes is more common than 74.2% of them.

    Origin

    Dutch origin

    From the Dutch and north German surname, from both senses of kroes (“drinking vessel; curly-haired”). Compare Croes, Kroese, Kroos.

    One of 167 Dutch surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 519 people named Kroes in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 509.

    #41,886
    rank among US surnames
    519
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #40,465)

    Who is named Kroes

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

    97% of people named Kroes identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
    • Two or more races 1.0%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Asian & Pacific Islander, Native American 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 Kroes

    Kroes has the Soundex code K620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K620.

    Other Dutch surnames

    All 167 Dutch surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kroes come from?
    From the Dutch and north German surname, from both senses of kroes (“drinking vessel; curly-haired”). Compare Croes, Kroese, Kroos.
    How common is the surname Kroes?
    519 people in the United States had the surname Kroes in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 594,885 Americans. It ranked 41,886th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kroes?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kroes identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.4% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    Is the surname Kroes getting more or less common?
    More common. 509 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 519 in 2010, up 2.0%.