Krenn
surname · Latin script
Meaning: apparently a noun derivative of (ge-)rinnen ‘to flow or run’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or installed wooden drainage channels and gutters
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
Krenn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Austria than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common surname.
- ATAustria≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 38K
- UYUruguay1 in 85K
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.
- Austria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Austria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)apparently a noun derivative of (ge-)rinnen ‘to flow or run’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or installed wooden drainage channels and gutters.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krenn 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AT Austria | #75 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Krenn | 99 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Krenn | 82 |
| US United States | — | 544 | 1 in 611K | 544 | Krenn | 84 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 329K | — | Krenn | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 99 | 1 in 85K | 99 | Krenn | 19 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 40 | 1 in 85K | 40 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | — | 12 | 1 in 175K | 12 | — | 1 |
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; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)Krenn is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname zu mhd. krēn 'Meerrettich' (slaw. Lehnwort); bezogen auf Gemüsehandel/-anbau/-verzehr. 680 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In Breton, moyen ; net, complet ; rond, arrondi, trapu, et coll., morceaux moyens ; rondins ; triques
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Breton, cuvier
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)- Franz Krennb. 1816ATAustrian composer (1816–1897)
- Anton Krennb. 1893ATAustrian Catholic priest and writer
- Anton Krennb. 1911ATAustrian footballer (1911-1993)
- Erika Krennb. 1925ATAustrian politician (1925-2018)
- Willibald Krennb. 1928ATAustrian politician (1928-2018)
- Kurt Krennb. 1936ATAustrian Roman Catholic bishop (1936-2014)
- Werner Krennb. 1943ATAustrian tenor
- Harald W. Krennb. 1958ATAustrian biologist
- Veit Krennb. 1960DEGerman sculptor
- Barbara Wolfgang-Krennb. 1969ATAustrian politician
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 544 | #40,261 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 540 | #43,119 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 451 | #44,821 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 99 | #11,154 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 40 | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 12 | #17,855 |
| 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
- What does the name Krenn mean, and where does it come from?
- apparently a noun derivative of (ge-)rinnen ‘to flow or run’, applied as a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or installed wooden drainage channels and gutters. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Krenn have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Krenn in Austria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krenn.
- How common is the name Krenn?
- In the United States, the national register counted 544 people named Krenn in 2010, about 1 in 611 thousand residents.
- How common is Krenn compared with other names?
- In Austria, Krenn is the 75th most common surname of 127,275 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krennThe 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, “Krenn” — the 75th most common surname in Austria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.