# Krog (surname)

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

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | German |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 592 |
| US rank (2010) | 37,591 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 521,530 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.3% (590 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Danish and Norwegian surname, from krog (“corner, nook”). * As a Danish, north German and Norwegian surname, from German Krug (“pub, inn”), which is also found in Swedish krog. * Also as a north German surname, from Middle Low German kroch (“enclosed piece of pasture”), from Proto-Germanic *kruftaz (“a hill; a curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend; arch, crook, curve”). Likely related to crop. * As a Serbo-Croatian surname, from krug (“ring, circle”, also "wooded area, forest").

## Who carries it

Share of people named Krog 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) | 94% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.2% |

## Similar surnames

Krug, Krieg, Karg, Krouse, Krogh, Kroes, Kirk, Krause, Kruse, Kraus, Kirsch, Kersey.

## 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.