Kreher
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Personenname; persönliches Merkmal: laut/krähend, von mhd
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈkɹɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kreher is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 382K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 699K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 382K (inferred from the name graph)
476 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Personenname; persönliches Merkmal: laut/krähend, von mhd. kr(e)gen/kreigen, mnd. kregen/kreiben 'krähen' abgeleitet; Kreher 962.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kreher 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 | 476 | 1 in 699K | 519 | Kreher | 9 |
| BR Brazil | 27 | 1 in 7.8M | 27 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 22 | 1 in 382K | 22 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 14 | 1 in 1.2M | 14 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 6 | 1 in 8.3M | 6 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
476 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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)- Hans Kreherb. 1943DEGerman politician
- Ronny Kreherb. 1980DEGerman footballer
- Sven Kreherb. 1990DEGerman badminton player
- Sara Kreherb. 1996DEGerman association football player
- Susanne Kreherb. 1998DEGerman skeleton racer
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 519 | #44,544 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 476 | #45,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 453 | #44,654 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 27 | #160,000 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 22 | #34,100 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 14 | #56,373 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #192,098 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Kreher?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛɹ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kreher mean?
- Recorded meaning: Personenname; persönliches Merkmal: laut/krähend, von mhd.
- In which country does Kreher have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 476 people named Kreher, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreher.
- Where is Kreher most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kreher is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 382 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kreher?
- In the United States, the national register counted 476 people named Kreher in 2010, about 1 in 699 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kreherThe 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, “Kreher”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.