Kriesel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Possibly a respelling of German Kreisel
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹisəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kriesel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 472K(measured from records)
- FIFinland≈1 in 37K
- DEGermany≈1 in 119K
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)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)
704 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Finland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Possibly a respelling of German Kreisel.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kriesel 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.
704 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)
Kriesel is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from a diminutive of Kries(e).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
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)
- Werner Krieselb. 1941DEGerman university teacher
- Peer Krieselb. 1979DEGerman drawer and painter
- David Krieselb. 1984DEGerman computer and data scientist
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 15 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 704 | #32,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 689 | #31,704 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 648 | #37,037 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 75 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 75 | #37,482 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 68 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 68 | #39,819 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Kriesel mean, and where does it come from?
- Possibly a respelling of German Kreisel. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kriesel?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹisəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kriesel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 704 people named Kriesel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kriesel.
- How common is the name Kriesel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 704 people named Kriesel in 2010, about 1 in 472 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/krieselThe 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, “Kriesel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.