Kriegel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: 2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Yiddish krigl ‘small jug’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɹiɡəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kriegel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 125K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 271K
- USUnited States1 in 303K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
1,098 people, 2010
recorded for this name
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:
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)
2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Yiddish krigl ‘small jug’. Compare Krug 1.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kriegel 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 | 1,098 | 1 in 303K | 1.2K | Kriegel | 10 |
| PL Poland | 78 | 1 in 491K | 41 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 47 | 1 in 125K | 47 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 38 | 1 in 5.6M | 38 | — | — |
| AR Argentina | 35 | 1 in 1.3M | 35 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 34 | 1 in 315K | 34 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 31 | 1 in 271K | 31 | — | — |
1,098 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kriegel 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.
In German, Übername: wohl zu mhd. kriegel 'störrisch, streitsüchtig'; stark in ganz Deutschland gestreut, v. a. Norden.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Indirekter Berufsname zu mhd. kruoc 'Krug'; wohl Töpfer oder Krug-/Gefäßhändler. Bearer count: 1061.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
In German, Diminutiv-/Hypokoristikum-Surname mit -el; Bearer count: 1059.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
from a diminutive of Krieg
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In li, lively, brisk
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)
- Willy Kriegelb. 1901DEGerman painter (1901-1966)
- František Kriegelb. 1908UACzech politician and doctor (1908-1979)
- Maurice Kriegel-Valrimontb. 1914FRFrench resistance member (1914–2006)
- Annie Kriegelb. 1926FRFrench historian (1926–1995)
- Leonard Kriegelb. 1933USAmerican writer
- Blandine Kriegelb. 1943FRFrench philosopher
- Volker Kriegelb. 1943DEGerman musician (1943–2003)
- Hans-Peter Kriegelb. 1948DEGerman computer scientist
- Danièle Kriegelb. 1950FRFrench-Israeli journalist
- David Kriegelb. 1969USAmerican film producer, television actor, film actor and film director
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 22 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.2K | #22,066 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #21,192 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,222 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 47 | #11,129 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #56,942 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 38 | #126,822 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 37 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 37 | #61,330 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 35 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 34 | #38,080 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 34 | #12,696 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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
- Where does the name Kriegel come from?
- 2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Yiddish krigl ‘small jug’. Compare Krug 1. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kriegel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹiɡəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kriegel mean?
- Recorded meaning: 2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Yiddish krigl ‘small jug’.
- In which country does Kriegel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Kriegel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kriegel.
- Where is Kriegel most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kriegel is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kriegel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,098 people named Kriegel in 2010, about 1 in 303 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kriegelThe 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, “Kriegel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.