Kreso

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

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

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

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 92K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 152K
  • SISlovenia1 in 421K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

46 people, 2021

Sources
53 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 92K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

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:

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kreso 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 Kreso is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia461 in 92K1.6K—4
NO Norway361 in 152K36—1
SE Sweden211 in 486K21—2
NL Netherlands101 in 1.7M10Kreso4
DK Denmark61 in 978K6——
SI Slovenia51 in 421K19—1

46 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SURS — resident population given names; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Kreso is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Danish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

    Also written Krešo

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Krešo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Krešo

  • Slovenian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Krešo

  • French name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Krešo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Krešo

26 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)

Kreso 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 Polish, vocative singular of kresa

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

  • In Esperanto, cress

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

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)

190019502000Krešo Tretinjak, b. 1905Krešo Pukšec, b. 1920Krešo Golik, b. 1922Krešo Novosel, b. 1926Krešo Džeba, b. 1935Krešo Pandžić, b. 1956Krešo Omerzel, b. 1957Krešo Beljak, b. 1971Krešo Ljubičić, b. 1988

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 Mr Kreso,
InformalHi Kreso,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Kreso
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202146#13,975
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202140—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—36#31,760
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—21#24,549
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200710#63,817
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—6#56,083
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—5#27,426

Reference works 1

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

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 Kreso?
A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹsoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Kreso have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 46 people named Kreso, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kreso most common?
Kreso is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 92 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Kreso?
In Croatia, the national register counted 46 people named Kreso in 2021, about 1 in 92 thousand residents.

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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, “Kreso”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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