Kramer

Kramer is the 547th most common surname in the United States, shared by 60,950 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 4,904.

By the numbers

People: 60,950
Rank: 547th
How common: 1 in 4,904
Per 100,000: 20.4

Where the name comes from

Borrowed from Dutch Kramer and German Krämer.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kramer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 92.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Kramer

Stanley Kramer (1913–2001)American film director and producer
Christoph Kramer (born 1991)German association football player
Sven Kramer (born 1986)Dutch speed skater
Josef Kramer (1906–1945)German SS officer, concentration camp commandant, and convicted war criminal
Joey Kramer (born 1950)American rock drummer
Jack Kramer (1921–2009)American tennis player
Larry Kramer (1935–2020)American screenwriter, novelist, essayist, playwright, LGBT-rights and AIDS activist
Samuel Noah Kramer (1897–1990)American Assyriologist

People named Kramer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kramer

Also a first name

Kramer has been given to 514 American babies as a first name since 1916, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.