Kreider
surname · Latin script
Meaning: topographic name for someone who lived on newly cleared land, from Middle High German geriute ‘clearing’, ‘woodland cleared for settlement or cultivation’, ‘assart’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈkɹaɪdɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kreider is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 857Kas Крейдер(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 62K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M
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 Kreider 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)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 62K (inferred from the name graph)
5,365 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Крейдер in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and Крайдер in KG Kyrgyzstan.
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)topographic name for someone who lived on newly cleared land, from Middle High German geriute ‘clearing’, ‘woodland cleared for settlement or cultivation’, ‘assart’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kreider 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 | 5,365 | 1 in 62K | 5.4K | Kreider | 6 |
| RU Russia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 857K | — | Крейдер | 81 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 430K | — | Крейдер | 19 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Крейдер | 10 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 7 | 1 in 1.2M | 7 | — | — |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Крайдер | 5 |
5,365 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kreider is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Teilweise Variante von Kreuder; sonst in Südbaden auch möglich: Lenisierung/Entrundung aus Kreuter oder Berufsname 'Hersteller von Kreide'. 150 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Berufsname, meist entrundet aus Kreuder; teils am Hochrhein unklar; 150 Bearer.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aaron Shenk Kreiderb. 1863USAmerican politician (1863–1929)
- Thomas Kreiderb. 1910CHSwiss religious priest
- Alan Kreiderb. 1941USAmerican church historian (1941-2017)
- Jan F. Kreiderb. 19421942-
- Steve Kreiderb. 1958USAmerican football player
- Richard B. Kreiderb. 1962USresearcher
- Dan Kreiderb. 1977USplayer of American football
- Kevin Kreiderb. 1983KRactor
- Chris Kreiderb. 1991USAmerican ice hockey player
- Alec Devon Kreiderb. 1991USAmerican murderer (1991–2017)
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 5.4K | #6,353 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.8K | #6,794 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.7K | #6,664 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 10 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 7 | #79,838 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kreider mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name for someone who lived on newly cleared land, from Middle High German geriute ‘clearing’, ‘woodland cleared for settlement or cultivation’, ‘assart’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kreider?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹaɪdɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kreider have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.4 thousand people named Kreider, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreider.
- Where is Kreider most common?
- Kreider is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 62 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kreider?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,365 people named Kreider in 2010, about 1 in 62 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/kreiderThe 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, “Kreider”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.