Croes

surname · Dutch · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Croes is a surname, with more bearers in Belgium than in any other country. In Aruba it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Dutch and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 7.3K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 13K
  • USUnited States1 in 1M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈3.4K ●

across 10 countries

Sources
129 ●

4.5K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 7.3K ◐

Belgium

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Croes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BE Belgium#7011,603△443 rec.1 in 7.3K1.6KCroes48
NL Netherlands#9541,326790 rec.1 in 13K1.3KCroes64
US United States—3212.7K rec.1 in 1M377Croes129
AW Aruba#230660 rec.——Croes36
DE Germany—128121 rec.——Croes32
GB United Kingdom—9684 rec.——Croes26
AU Australia—8884 rec.——Croes21
FR France—50△1 rec.1 in 1.4M50—2
ES Spain—4929 rec.1 in 1M49Croes14
ZA South Africa—3737 rec.——Croes6
CA Canada—2926 rec.——Croes12
BR Brazil—27—1 in 7.8M27——

Roughly 1.6K people in Belgium bear this name (about 1 in 7.3K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Dutch4.4K25%
  • English4.1K23%
  • Spanish2.4K13%
  • German2K11%
  • French1.8K10%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Dutch4,40925%
English4,05923%
Spanish2,37813%
German2,01311%
French1,79910%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Croes is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname3.4K records spelled Croes5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Venezuela, United States, Aruba, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Croës

  • French surname1.9K records spelled Croes3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Netherlands, United States

    Also written Croës, Croês

  • Hindi surname55 records spelled Croes3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Belgium

    Also written Croës

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Croes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, second-person singular present subjunctive of croar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0204060801900192019401960198065 · 1961

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Croes in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189121
190127
191129
192139
193133
194145
195143
196165
197148
198137
199150

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000John Croes, b. 1762John James Robertson Croes, b. 1834Lisette Croes, b. 1939Hendrik Croes, b. 1942Rob Croes, b. 1945Mito Croes, b. 1946Frido Croes, b. 1957Esther Croes, b. 1966Max Croes, b. 1988Francois Croes, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 19 sources across 11 countries.

Official registers attesting Croes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20081.6K#694
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—1.5K#735
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)20071.3K#1,184
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020377#58,182
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000327#58,130
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010321#62,359
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199150—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—49#45,382
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—49#45,014
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194145—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Croes?
We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Croes (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Croes have the most bearers?
We estimate about 1.6 thousand people bear Croes in Belgium, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled croes.
How common is Croes compared with other names?
In Belgium, Croes is the 701st most common surname of 299,621 surnames recorded there.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Croes” — the 701st most common surname in Belgium. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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