Krete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: singular past subjunctive of krijten
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
/kretə/(machine-generated) Dutch · model-generated
Krete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 110Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 4.9M
- BEBelgium1 in 12M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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
(measured from records)singular past subjunctive of krijten
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Krete 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 109K | — | Krete | 11 |
| BR Brazil | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.2M | — | Krete | 15 |
| US United States | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 64M | — | Krete | 17 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 9.1M | — | Krete | 10 |
| BE Belgium | 1 | 1 in 12M | 1 | — | 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Krete Tarkmeesb. 1994EEEstonian artist (born 1994)
- Krete Koovitb. 1996EEEstonian rower (born 1996)
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 43 | #116,436 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #197,655 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Krete mean, and where does it come from?
- singular past subjunctive of krijten Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Krete?
- It depends on the language: in Dutch /kretə/; in Portuguese /kɾete/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Krete have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 165 people named Krete in the Netherlands, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled krete.
- How common is the name Krete?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 43 people named Krete, about 1 in 4.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Krete?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kreteThe 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, “Krete”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.