Kressner
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹɛsnɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kressner is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 163K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 319K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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 Kressner 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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)
≈380 named Kreßner, est.
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kreßner in DE Germany.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kressner 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Kreßner | 52 |
| US United States | 102 | 1 in 3.3M | 102 | Kressner | 58 |
| DK Denmark | 36 | 1 in 163K | 36 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 32 | 1 in 319K | 32 | Kressner | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | Kressner | 11 |
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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Otto Friedrich Kressnerb. 1801DEGerman flautist, conductor and composer (1801-1858)
- Carsten Kressnerb. 1957DKDanish actor
- Daniel Kressnerb. 1978DEGerman numerical analyst
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 7 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 102 | #158,432 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 36 | #14,107 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 32 | #17,794 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 5 | #101,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Kressner?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹɛsnɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kressner have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 381 people named Kreßner in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kressner most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kressner is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 163 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kressner?
- In the United States, the national register counted 102 people named Kressner in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kressner?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kressnerThe 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, “Kressner”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.