Kreps
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹɛps/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kreps is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 366Kas Крепс(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 129K
- USUnited States1 in 175K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kreps itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)
1,901 people, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Крепс in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’. As a Jewish name it is of ornamental origin; otherwise it was probably a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kreps 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 | 1,901 | 1 in 175K | 2K | Kreps | 12 |
| RU Russia | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 366K | — | Крепс | 96 |
| BR Brazil | 212 | 1 in 999K | 212 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 148 | 1 in 259K | 80 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 193K | — | Крепс | 20 |
| CZ Czechia | 83 | 1 in 129K | 83 | — | — |
1,901 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 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kreps is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Juanita Morris, US secretary of
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, commerce
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Norwegian Nynorsk, crayfish
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, dabiskais kaučuks (ar grumbuļainu virsmu), ko iegūst lateksa koagulācijas procesā nātrija sulfīta klātbūtnē
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, sīkgrubuļains (zīda, vilnas, kokvilnas) audums, kas austs no grodi savērptiem diegiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Joseph Krepsb. 1886BEBelgian organist (1886–1965)
- Juanita M. Krepsb. 1921USUnited States Secretary of Commerce (1921-2010)
- David M. Krepsb. 1950USAmerican economist
- Gary L Krepsb. 1952USCommunication scholar, professor, author
- Kamil Krepsb. 1984CZCzech ice hockey player
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 19 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #13,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,409 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,069 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 212 | #35,048 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 83 | #19,615 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 83 | #8,403 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 80 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 80 | #35,733 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 68 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 68 | #39,818 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Kreps come from?
- from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’. As a Jewish name it is of ornamental origin; otherwise it was probably a nickname for someone with a peculiar gait. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kreps?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹɛps/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kreps mean?
- Recorded meaning: from German Krebs ‘crab’ or Yiddish kreps ‘crayfish’.
- In which country does Kreps have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.9 thousand people named Kreps, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreps.
- Where is Kreps most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kreps is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 129 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kreps?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,901 people named Kreps in 2010, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kreps?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krepsThe 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, “Kreps”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.