Krenek
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Kren
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/kɾenek/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Krenek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 6.2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 44K
- SKSlovakia1 in 111K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 211 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,500 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)diminutive of Kren.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Krenek is found
(measured from records)Krenek 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Krenek | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,724 | 1 in 6.2K | 1.7K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,035 | 1 in 321K | 1.1K | Krenek | 211 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 849K | — | Krenek | 40 |
| HR Croatia | — | 97 | 1 in 44K | 97 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | — | 49 | 1 in 111K | 49 | — | — |
| ML Mali | #165 | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 890K | — | Krenek | 1 |
| GD Grenada | #465 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Krenek | 1 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)- Carl Krenekb. 1880ATpainter, engraver (1880-1948)
- Hans Krenekb. 1903ATAustrian psychologist and educationalist
- Roman Krenekb. 1976CZCzech ski jumper
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Krenek mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Kren. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krenek?
- In Spanish /kɾenek/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Krenek?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Krenek in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krenek. After it come Czechia, United States, Germany and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Krenek most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krenek is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 6.2 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krenek?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,724 people named Krenek, about 1 in 6.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Krenek compared with other names?
- In Mali, Krenek is the 165th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krenekThe 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, “Krenek” — the 165th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.