Krempel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: unclear; likely a nickname or occupational form
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹɛmpəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krempel is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- DEGermany
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
unclear; likely a nickname or occupational form
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
Krempel 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, junk, stuff
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, Possibly from frühnhd. grempel 'Kleinhandel' or mhd. krempel; bearer count 312.
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)
- Heinrich Krempelb. 1860DEGerman mountaineer
- Paul Krempelb. 1900USAmerican gymnast (1900-1973)
- Valentin Kremplb. 1904DEnot in their usual nameGerman bobsledder (1904–1945)
- Erich Krempelb. 1913DEsport shooter
- Matthias Kremplb. 1917ATnot in their usual nameAustrian politician (1917-1997)
- Gerhard Krempelb. 1931DEpolitician
- Wolfram Krempelb. 1936DEGerman assistant director (1936-2020)
- Ulrich Krempelb. 1948DEGerman curator, writer and art historian
- Stefan Kremplb. 1969DEnot in their usual nameGerman journalist
- Erhard KremplDEnot in their usual nameGerman American engineering professor
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)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 239 | #84,529 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 236 | #80,419 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 197 | #37,251 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 56 | #28,831 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 18 | #39,486 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 14 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 14 | #110,996 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #165,089 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #57,348 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- What does the name Krempel mean, and where does it come from?
- unclear; likely a nickname or occupational form Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Krempel?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɛmpəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Krempel have the most bearers?
- Krempel is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krempelThe 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, “Krempel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.