Krese

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kɹiz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Krese is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia≈1 in 418K(inferred from the name graph)
  • LVLatvia1 in 1.9M

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.

Croatia (inferred from the name graph)

≈10 people, est.

Sources
8 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 418K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kreše in HR Croatia.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Krese 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.

Where Krese is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia≈10 est.≈1 in 418K—Kreše5
LV Latvia11 in 1.9M1—1
SI Slovenia——217Krese8
DK Denmark——8——
SE Sweden——2——

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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Krese is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Кресе

24 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Krese is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Dutch, singular past subjunctive of krijsen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Slovenian, accusative plural of kres

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Danish, indefinite plural of kres

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, neuter singular of kresen

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, šīs dzimtas ģints ("Tropaeolum"), no kuras Latvijā vairākas sugas audzē kā viengadīgus kāpelētājaugus ar nekārtniem oranžiem, dzelteniem vai sarkaniem ziediem un ieapaļām lapām

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Divdīgļlapju klases dzimta ("Tropaeolaceae"), 2 ģintis, ~80 sugu

    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)

1900192019401960Leopold Krese, b. 1915Maruša Krese, b. 1947Bine Krese, b. 1950Meta Krese, b. 1955

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)

FormalDear Krese,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Krese
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—217#1,950
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—8#48,108
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—2#71,615

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Krese?
A machine transcription gives /kɹiz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Krese have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 10 people named Krese in Croatia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreše.
How common is the name Krese?
In Latvia, the national register counted 1 people named Krese, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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The 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, “Krese”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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