Kremen
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ornamental name or metonymic occupational name from Ukrainian kremin ‘pebble’, ‘flint’ (Russian kremen)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kremen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- TTTrinidad & Tobago≈1 in 27K
- CZCzechia1 in 31K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 154 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
343 people
Highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ornamental name or metonymic occupational name from Ukrainian kremin ‘pebble’, ‘flint’ (Russian kremen).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kremen 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | 343 | 1 in 31K | 343 | — | 3 |
| US United States | 222 | 1 in 1.5M | 234 | Kremen | 154 |
| GH Ghana | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 369K | — | Kremen | 3 |
| PL Poland | 62 | 1 in 617K | 32 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 859K | — | Kremen | 13 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Kremen | 1 |
| SK Slovakia | 16 | 1 in 340K | 16 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | 1 |
343 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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)
Kremen is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname for a hard man, from Czech kfemen ‘quartz’, ‘flint’, of proverbial hardness.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In enm, alternative form of cromen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of krem
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, flint
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)
- Barbara Kremenb. 1922USAmerican writer (born 1922)
- Irwin Kremenb. 1925USAmerican artist (1925–2020)
- Lora Kremenb. 1936BGBulgarian actress (1936-2012)
- Claire Kremenb. 1961USAmerican biologist
- Gary Kremenb. 1963USAmerican businessman and politician
- Ilona Kremenb. 1994BYBelarusian tennis player
- William S. KremenUSresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 234 | #85,854 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 222 | #84,463 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 198 | #87,348 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #67,350 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 30 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 30 | #69,744 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Kremen mean, and where does it come from?
- ornamental name or metonymic occupational name from Ukrainian kremin ‘pebble’, ‘flint’ (Russian kremen). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Kremen?
- In the etymology graph, Cremen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kremen have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 343 people named Kremen, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kremen?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 343 people named Kremen, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kremenThe 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, “Kremen”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.