Krebs is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Krebs
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Germany
Meaning: A town in Upper Saxony, Germany. Common in the Moselle, the name evokes the crayfish.

How popular is Krebs?

Krebs is common in United States.

Krebs is ranked 9625 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Krebs bearers increased by 1.059264 per cent in 2010 US census to 11067 since 2000, the surname slipped by 226 spots and ranked at 3260. The last name was found in around 38 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.84 97.03
Hispanic or Latino 1.91 1.24
Others 1.26 0.89
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.48 0.47
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.27 0.2
Black 0.24 0.16
Krebs is quite popular family name mostly used in Germany while Switzerland is ahead in terms of density. Around 55984 people have been found who wears Krebs as their family name. Krebs is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
567,967 Indonesia6
918,840 India5
59,967 Moldova4
108,034 Italy3
8,926 Cameroon3
14,054 China3
19,452 Malaysia3
4,554 Guatemala3
54,135 Philippines2
17,692 Armenia2
14,004 Hungary2
9,185 Hong Kong2
19,093 Finland2
18,035 Egypt2
17,547 Colombia2
18,625 Japan2
15,999 Slovakia2
24,766 Scotland2
7,314 Bolivia1
36,814 Romania1
24,176 Qatar1
16,228 Bulgaria1
2,374 Bermuda1
28,746 Algeria1
2,613 The Bahamas1
2,040 Mali1
7,895 South Korea1
1,819 Laos1
5,553 Taiwan1
7,292 Vietnam1
4,942 Libya1
3,243 Suriname1
13,972 Sri Lanka1
1,970 Grenada1
692 Guinea1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
98,632 Ukraine42
9,524 Portugal37
32,867 Belarus36
8,504 Ireland33
29,383 United Arab Emirates31
15,487 Serbia26
5,663 Thailand18
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
7,768 New Zealand92
6,636 Ecuador92
717 Luxembourg73
4,774 Latvia73
14,658 Israel71
35,558 Kazakhstan67
29,438 Belgium52
Countries with hundreds of Krebs:
569 Denmark910
5,553 Canada785
2,074 Chile558
11,494 South Africa548
5,852 Australia503
11,777 Argentina463
10,846 Mexico419
40,778 Russia362
17,922 Poland334
5,553 Czech Republic317
17,618 England312
1,671 Slovenia254
4,156 Sweden232
9,668 Peru185
17,243 Netherlands159
24,167 Spain114
7,291 Norway105
Countries with thousands of Krebs:
4,354 Brazil3,244
166 Switzerland2,935
2,972 France2,559
648 Austria1,179
Countries with ten thousands of Krebs:
212 Germany24,578
2,843 United States14,119
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Comments

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Victorina Bliss
Krebs is an Alsatian family name very widespread means crayfish, a designer of a merchant crayfish also sobriquet which applies a slow man.

Krebs Namesakes

  • Hans Adolf Krebs, Scientist
  • Diether Krebs, Actor
  • Bernt Krebs, Scientist
  • Ulla Krebs Bille, Poul Krebs' wife
  • Anna Krebs Bille, Poul Krebs' daughter
  • Brian Krebs, Journalist
  • Diether Krebs, Actor
  • Eduard Krebsbach, Physician
  • Florian Krebs, Soccer player
  • Gaëtan Krebs, Soccer player

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