In Croatia, Krause families are Croats (from Djurdjevac area ).
Prevalence
Only a few people with faimily name Krause live in Croatia today, in five households only. They are located in 6 Croatian counties, four cities and two other places, mostly in Krk on the Island of Krk (<5), Dolice (<5), Zagreb (<5), Dubrovnik (<5), and in Kalinovac in Djurdjevac area (<5).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned few times, the first time 1917 in source List of Dignitaries, Officials and Public Servants of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia.