Crämer

surname · Latin script

Crämer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Germany it is the 19th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From German Cramer.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.3Kas Kramer(measured from records)
  • DEGermany≈1 in 2Kas Kramer
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 3.8Kas Kramer

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 Crämer 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈290,000 named Kramer, est.

#829 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
490 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands, as Kramer

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KramerLatin(measured from records)
קרעמערHebrew(measured from records)
เครเมอรThai(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kramer in US United States, DE Germany, NL Netherlands and 2 more and Kremer in LU Luxembourg, CN China.

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)

From German Cramer.

Sources 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • The Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Crämer 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.

Where Crämer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈290,000 est.≈1 in 4.7K—Kremer15
US United States#26363,936as Kramer1 in 5.2K64KKramer490
DE Germany#19≈39,000 est.≈1 in 2K—Kramer223
NL Netherlands#3313,188as Kramer1 in 1.3K13KKramer122
EG Egypt—≈9,700 est.≈1 in 11K—Kramer12
CH Switzerland#3042,237as Kramer1 in 3.8K2.2KKramer71
LU Luxembourg#207≈320 est.≈1 in 2K1.6KKremer27

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Crämer is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Crámer, Cramer, Cramér

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Karl Craemer, b. 1818Ulrich Crämer, b. 1907Jana Crämer, b. 1982
  • Karl Craemerb. 1818DEnot in their usual nameGerman politician (1818-1902)
  • Ulrich Crämerb. 1907DEGerman regional historian (1907–1992)
  • Jana Crämerb. 1982Author, influencer, podcaster and YouTuber

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(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Crämer mean, and where does it come from?
From German Cramer. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
In which country does Crämer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 294 thousand people named Kramer in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Crämer most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Crämer itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Netherlands's: the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people named Kramer.
How common is the name Crämer?
In the United States, the national register counted 63,936 people named Kramer in 2010, about 1 in 5.2 thousand residents.
How common is Crämer compared with other names?
In Germany, Crämer is the 19th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Crämer” — the 19th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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