Kruel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant of Kroll 1
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹʊəl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kruel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 785Kas Krul(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 108K
- ARArgentina1 in 1.2M
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 Kruel 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
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 108K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,500 named Krul, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Krul in US United States, NL Netherlands, 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 Kroll 1.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kruel 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 | ≈6,500 est. | ≈1 in 215K | — | Krul | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,593as Krul | 1 in 11K | 1.6K | Krul | 47 |
| BR Brazil | 1,143as Krul | 1 in 185K | 1.1K | Kruel | 3 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Kruel | 1 |
| US United States | 424as Krul | 1 in 785K | 467 | Krul | 150 |
| PL Poland | 207as Krul | 1 in 185K | 107 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | 134as Krul | 1 in 80K | 134 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 38 | 1 in 1.2M | 38 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 22as Krul | 1 in 154K | 22 | — | — |
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 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)
- Amaury Kruelb. 1901BRBrazilian military, former war minister under João Goulart
- Walther Kruelb. 1908DEentomologist
- Bernd Kruelb. 1976DEGerman basketball player (born 1976)
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 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 446 | #18,862 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 198 | #87,348 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 191 | #100,867 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 38 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kruel mean, and where does it come from?
- variant of Kroll 1. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kruel?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹʊəl/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kruel have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.5 thousand people named Krul in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kruel?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 38 people named Kruel, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kruel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kruelThe 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, “Kruel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.