Kreutzer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: in some cases, possibly from Middle High German kriuzcere, kriuzer, a term denoting a crusader or Teutonic Knight, an allusion to the symbol of the cross worn on the tunic by such knights
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/krjˈuːtsɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kreutzer is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
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)
in some cases, possibly from Middle High German kriuzcere, kriuzer, a term denoting a crusader or Teutonic Knight, an allusion to the symbol of the cross worn on the tunic by such knights.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kreutzer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | — | 149 | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 111 | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 97 | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 66 | — |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kreutzer is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
topographic name for someone who lived near a cross set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle High German kriuz(e) ‘cross’ -I- the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
possibly also a metonymic occupational name for a coiner, from the same word denoting a small coin marked with the symbol of a cross (in full kriuzerpfenninc).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
habitational name for someone from a place called Krogis (recorded as Creuz in 1186), or from some other place similarly named.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
ornamental name from Kreutzer, the name of the coin (see 4).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A medieval silver coin once used as currency in southern Germany and Austria.
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)
- Rodolphe Kreutzerb. 1766FRFrench violinist, conductor, composer (1766-1831)
- Adélaïde-Charlotte Kreutzerb. 1771FRRodolphe Kreutzer's spouse
- Conradin Kreutzerb. 1780DEGerman composer and conductor (1780-1849)
- Joseph Kreutzerb. 1790DEGerman musician (1790-1840)
- Léon Kreutzerb. 1817FRFrench composer and music critic
- Leonid Kreutzerb. 1884DEGerman musician (1884–1953)
- Frank Kreutzerb. 1939USMajor League Baseball pitcher
- Ralf Kreutzerb. 1958DEGerman economist
- Marie Kreutzerb. 1977ATAustrian film director and screenwriter (born 1977)
- Daniel Kreutzerb. 1979DEGerman ice hockey player
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 29 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.2K | #13,625 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,799 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.2K | #13,486 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 149 | #46,646 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 111 | #10,152 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 97 | #19,483 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 66 | #8,246 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- 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
- What does the name Kreutzer mean, and where does it come from?
- in some cases, possibly from Middle High German kriuzcere, kriuzer, a term denoting a crusader or Teutonic Knight, an allusion to the symbol of the cross worn on the tunic by such knights. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kreutzer?
- A machine transcription gives /krjˈuːtsɐ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kreutzer have the most bearers?
- Kreutzer is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Kreutzer?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kreutzerThe 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, “Kreutzer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.