Kreger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. nickname for someone with a croaky voice, from a noun derivative of Middle Low German kregen or kreigen ‘to crow’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kreger is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)1. nickname for someone with a croaky voice, from a noun derivative of Middle Low German kregen or kreigen ‘to crow’. 2. possibly an altered spelling of Krieger.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kreger counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 55 | — |
| AR Argentina | — | 14 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 8 | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 2 | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)- Edward Albert Kregerb. 1868USAmerican Major General
- Nelly Jenne Wilhelmina Kreger-van Rijb. 1920NLDutch mycologist and microbiologist
- Arnold Kregerb. 1991RURussian footballer (born 1991)
- James Kregerb. 2000USAmerican cellist (1947-)
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 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.1K | #8,055 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.4K | #8,769 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,744 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55 | #98,063 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 14 | — |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 8 | #68,379 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2 | #13,830 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Kreger come from?
- 1. nickname for someone with a croaky voice, from a noun derivative of Middle Low German kregen or kreigen ‘to crow’. 2. possibly an altered spelling of Krieger. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kreger mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. nickname for someone with a croaky voice, from a noun derivative of Middle Low German kregen or kreigen ‘to crow’.
- In which country does Kreger have the most bearers?
- Kreger is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kregerThe 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, “Kreger”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.