Křech
surname · Latin script
Křech is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia. The Middle German form Krech derives from Kraichen, the old spelling of Graichen.
- PLPoland1 in 207K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 461K
- CZCzechia1 in 595K
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 Křech 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 207K (inferred from the name graph)
721 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Креч in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and Krech in US United States, PL Poland, CZ Czechia.
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)
habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia. The Middle German form Krech derives from Kraichen, the old spelling of Graichen.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Křech 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 | 721 | 1 in 461K | 862 | Krech | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 198 | 1 in 1.1M | 198 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 185 | 1 in 207K | 95 | Krech | 17 |
| RU Russia | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Креч | 64 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 769K | — | Креч | 11 |
| BY Belarus | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Креч | 8 |
| CZ Czechia | 18 | 1 in 595K | 18 | Krech | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 12 | 1 in 700K | 12 | — | 1 |
721 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 16 | #61,440 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Křech mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from a place called Graicha, near Altenburg in Thuringia. The Middle German form Krech derives from Kraichen, the old spelling of Graichen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Křech have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 721 people named Křech, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krech.
- Where is Křech most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Křech is densest in Poland — about 1 in 207 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Křech?
- In the United States, the national register counted 721 people named Křech in 2010, about 1 in 461 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/k%C5%99echThe 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, “Křech”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.