Krenz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 1. habitational name from any of various place called Kreinitz, Krenitz, or Krensitz, so named from Middle High German greniz(e) ‘boundary’, ‘border’ (of Slavic origin), modem German Grenze
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹɛnz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krenz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 30K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 55K
- PLPoland1 in 100K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
1,584 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
1. habitational name from any of various place called Kreinitz, Krenitz, or Krensitz, so named from Middle High German greniz(e) ‘boundary’, ‘border’ (of Slavic origin), modem German Grenze. 2. German: variant of Kranz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Krenz 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 | 1,584 | 1 in 210K | 1.7K | Krenz | 44 |
| AR Argentina | 1,517 | 1 in 30K | 1.5K | Krenz | 41 |
| PL Poland | 384 | 1 in 100K | 192 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 84 | 1 in 2.5M | 84 | Krenz | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | 62 | 1 in 55K | 62 | Krenz | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | 40 | 1 in 210K | 40 | — | 2 |
1,584 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Otton Krenzb. 1890PLPolish priest (1890-1962)
- Editha Krenzb. 1915PLphilosopher and mathematician
- Jan Krenzb. 1926PLPolish conductor and composer (1926-2020)
- Egon Krenzb. 1937DEGerman politician, communist leader of East Germany
- Wolfgang Krenzb. 1943DEGerman architect
- Hanna Kóčka-Krenzb. 1947PLPolish archaeologist, professor of humanities
- Jacek Krenzb. 1948PLacademic architect and painter
- Armin Krenzb. 1952DEGerman author
- Katarzyna Krenzb. 1953PLPolish writer
- Paul Krenzb. 1991DEGerman bobsledder
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.7K | #16,531 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.6K | #16,260 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.6K | #17,709 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 192 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 192 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 192 | #16,823 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 192 | #17,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 84 | #72,138 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 62 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 40 | #22,077 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- Where does the name Krenz come from?
- 1. habitational name from any of various place called Kreinitz, Krenitz, or Krensitz, so named from Middle High German greniz(e) ‘boundary’, ‘border’ (of Slavic origin), modem German Grenze. 2. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Krenz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛnz/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Krenz mean?
- Recorded meaning: 1. habitational name from any of various place called Kreinitz, Krenitz, or Krensitz, so named from Middle High German greniz(e) ‘boundary’, ‘border’ (of Slavic origin), modem German Grenze.
- In which country does Krenz have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Krenz, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krenz.
- Where is Krenz most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Krenz is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Krenz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,584 people named Krenz in 2010, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krenzThe 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, “Krenz”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.