Given name & surname · also Polish
Krupa
“groats”
Krupa is a surname with more than one origin. It is used in English and Polish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Krupa has more than one origin: in one tradition, it comes from Polish; as a Serbo-Croatian surname, it goes back to a word meaning “sleet, hail”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Krupa through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 403
- 0 boys · 403 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 31 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 girls is 5 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 31 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,009 as a first name in 2020; 3,821 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.
Krupa’s family of names
In English usage, Krupa as a surname has a related form in KROUPA. In Ukrainian usage, Krupa as a surname is a transliteration of Крупа.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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