Kroeger
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Kruger (see Krueger)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɹoʊɡɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kroeger is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 76K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 6.2Kas Kröger
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 20K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kroeger itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 302 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 named Kroger, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kröger in DE Germany, FI Finland, UY Uruguay, Krøger in NO Norway and Kroger in CN China.
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)
variant of Kruger (see Krueger).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kroeger 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Kroger | 4 |
| DE Germany | #307 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | listed | Kröger | 119 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #970 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Kroeger | 2 |
| US United States | — | 4,402 | 1 in 76K | 4.4K | Kroeger | 302 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,937as Kröger | 1 in 2.9K | 1.9K | Kröger | 16 |
| NO Norway | — | 170as Krøger | 1 in 32K | 170 | Krøger | 7 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 85as Kroger | 1 in 40K | 85 | Kröger | 7 |
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; the dfa-band-1 register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Ernst R. Kroegerb. 1862USAmerican composer (1862-1934)
- Erhard Kroegerb. 1905LVBaltic German politician (NSDAP), MdR, SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1905–1987)
- Berry Kroegerb. 1912USAmerican actor (1912-1991)
- Heinrich Kroegerb. 1930LV(born 1930)
- Matthias Kroegerb. 1935DEGerman theologian (1935-2021)
- Wolf Kroegerb. 1941DECanadian production designer
- Brooke Kroegerb. 1949USAmerican journalist and academic
- Gary Kroegerb. 1957USAmerican actor (born 1957)
- Mike Kroegerb. 1972CACanadian bassist (born 1972)
- Chad Kroegerb. 1974CACanadian rock musician
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 19 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.4K | #7,552 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.3K | #7,484 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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
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 Kroeger mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kruger (see Krueger). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kroeger?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɹoʊɡɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kroeger have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Kroger in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kroeger?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,402 people named Kroeger in 2010, about 1 in 76 thousand residents.
- How common is Kroeger compared with other names?
- In Germany, Kroeger is the 307th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kroeger?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kroegerThe 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, “Kroeger” — the 307th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.