Given name & surname · also German
Kruger
Kruger is a surname from German, ultimately from Afrikaans. It is used in English and Afrikaans.
Original GermanKrüger
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Kruger comes from German, and ultimately from Afrikaans.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2015. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kruger through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2015. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,356 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kruger’s family of names
In German usage, Kruger as a surname has a related form in KRUEGER. In Afrikaans usage, Kruger as a surname was borrowed from the German form Krüger.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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