Kreil
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Kreil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 123 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: variant of Kreul.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 365K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 470Kfew records
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 349K (inferred from the name graph)
123 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)variant of Kreul.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kreil is found
(measured from records)Kreil 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 | — | 123 | 1 in 2.7M | 284 | Kreil | 129 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈90 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Kreil | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈87 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Kreil | 24 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 349K | — | Kreil | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Kreil | 15 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 23 | 1 in 365K | 23 | Kreil | 4 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 506K | — | Kreil | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | — |
| SH St. Helena | #149 | — | — | — | Kreil | 1 |
123 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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Kreil is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, a hamlet in Hollands Kroon, North Holland, Netherlands
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Karl Kreilb. 1798ATAustrian meteorologist and astronomer (1798-1862)
- Heinrich Kreilb. 1885DEGerman trade unionist and politician (1885-1967)
- Tanja Kreilb. 1977DEGerman electrician
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kreil mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kreul. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kreil?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 123 people named Kreil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreil. After it come Nigeria, Canada, Belgium and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kreil?
- In the United States, the national register counted 123 people named Kreil in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Kreil compared with other names?
- In St. Helena, Kreil is the 149th most common surname of 3,440 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kreilThe 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, “Kreil” — ranked 68360th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.