Kruyer

surname · Latin script

Kruyer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 466K(inferred from the name graph)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 999K
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 1.1M

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈120 people, est.

Record sources
70 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 466K (inferred from the name graph)

South Africa, est.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kruyer 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.

Where Kruyer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈120 est.≈1 in 466K—Kruyer14
US United States≈83 est.≈1 in 4MlistedKruyer70
GB United Kingdom≈29 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Kruyer30
AU Australia≈23 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Kruyer23
DE Germany≈19 est.≈1 in 4.3M—Kruyer8
NL Netherlands131 in 1.3M13Kruyer10
IE Ireland≈5 est.≈1 in 999K—Kruyer3

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Kruyer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsCBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007)200713#58,402
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

In which country does Kruyer have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 121 people named Kruyer in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kruyer.
How common is the name Kruyer?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 13 people named Kruyer in 2007, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.

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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, “Kruyer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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