Kravets
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Tailor’, from Ukrainian and Belorussian kravets ‘tailor’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹəvɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kravets is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 65th most common surname.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.6Kas Кравець(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 12Kas Кравец
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 22Kas Кравец
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kravets itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Кравець, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кравец in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and Кравець in UA Ukraine.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Tailor’, from Ukrainian and Belorussian kravets ‘tailor’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kravets counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #65 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Кравець | 60 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Кравец | 147 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,040 | 1 in 13K | 1.6K | — | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈880 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 460 | Кравец | 34 |
| BY Belarus | #794 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Кравец | 17 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 86 | Kravets | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kravets is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
occupational name from Ukrainian and Belorussian kravets ‘tailor’, a derivative of Old Slavic kravati ‘to cut’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Russian, Bobrik Kravets, Kanevsk castle servant. 1552.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A surname from the Slavic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite genitive singular of krav
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Juri Kravetsb. 1957DEUkrainian musician (1957–2012)
- Sergey Kravetsb. 1962RURussian journalist
- Mikhail Kravetsb. 1963RURussian ice hockey player
- Inessa Kravetsb. 1966UASoviet and Ukrainian triple and long jumper
- Alla Kravetsb. 1973UAUkrainian volleyball player
- Olena Kravetsb. 1977UAUkrainian actor and comedian
- Marina Leonidovna Kravetsb. 1984RURussian actress
- Artem Kravetsb. 1989UAUkrainian footballer
- Andrij Kravetsb. 1990UAUkrainian Go player
- Vasyl Kravetsb. 1997UAUkrainian association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.6K | #1,791 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #2,004 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 86 | #927 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 67 | #1,346 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kravets mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Tailor’, from Ukrainian and Belorussian kravets ‘tailor’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Kravets?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹəvɪts/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kravets have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Кравець in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kravets most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kravets is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kravets?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,040 people named Kravets in 2026, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Kravets compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kravets is the 65th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kravetsThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Kravets” — the 65th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.