Kreul
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obertonvokalismus: Variante mit eu/ö/ö?; 227+26 Belege (Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Kreul is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 360 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 910Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 924K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 464K (inferred from the name graph)
360 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obertonvokalismus: Variante mit eu/ö/ö?; 227+26 Belege. Im Raum Bottrop konzentriert; als Ausgangsform für Kröll erwogen.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
Where the surname Kreul is found
(measured from records)Kreul 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 | 360 | 1 in 924K | 399 | Kreul | 141 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 909K | — | Kreul | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Kreul | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kreul | 5 |
| AU Australia | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Kreul | 3 |
| IE Ireland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 464K | — | Kreul | 1 |
360 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 2020. 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)- Diethard Kreulb. 1937DEGerman politician
- Claus Kreulb. 1944DEGerman footballer (1944–2024)
- Andreas Kreulb. 1961DEGerman art historian
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kreul mean?
- Recorded meaning: Obertonvokalismus: Variante mit eu/ö/ö?; 227+26 Belege.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kreul?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 360 people named Kreul, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kreul. After it come United Kingdom, Malaysia, Canada and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kreul?
- In the United States, the national register counted 360 people named Kreul in 2010, about 1 in 924 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kreulThe 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, “Kreul” — ranked 50366th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.