Kreiß
surname · Latin script
Meaning: singular imperative of kreißen
Kreiß is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 223Kas Kreiss(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 683Kas Kreiss
- GHGhana≈1 in 208Kas Kreiss
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 Kreiß 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
487 named Kreiss, 2010
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est., as Kreiss
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kreiss in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 3 more.
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)
singular imperative of kreißen
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kreiß 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 487as Kreiss | 1 in 683K | 487 | Kreiss | 186 |
| DE Germany | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 223K | — | Kreiss | 57 |
| FR France | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 233K | 25 | — | 2 |
| GH Ghana | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Kreiss | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 870K | — | Kreiss | 10 |
| BE Belgium | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 380K | — | Kreiss | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 319K | — | Kreiss | 9 |
487 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Friedrich Kreißb. 1842DEGerman landscape architect
- Olga Renate Kreißb. 1900DEGerman singer
- Doris Kreißb. 1945DEGerman university teacher (1945-2007)
- Christian Kreißb. 1962DEGerman economist
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
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 Kreiß mean, and where does it come from?
- singular imperative of kreißen Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kreiß have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 487 people named Kreiss, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kreiß?
- In the United States, the national register counted 487 people named Kreiss in 2010, about 1 in 683 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krei%C3%9FThe 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, “Kreiß”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.