Surname KRYGER

People with the surname KRYGER in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026: 681 men and 687 women. Most registered in: POMORSKIE.

6 verified statements

male

681people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 31,127

Most registered in: POMORSKIE (26.9%, 20 January 2026)

female

687people in the PESEL register · 20 January 2026

about 1 in 31,383

Most registered in: POMORSKIE (27.3%, 20 January 2026)

Each 1-in-X is computed within its own dataset. The datasets are different sizes, so these two figures are not compared with each other.

How many people have this surname?

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How many people have this surname?

The PESEL register publishes two separate surname lists, male and female. We show each figure on its own and never add them up.

male

681 people were registered with the surname KRYGER (male) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

female

687 people were registered with the surname KRYGER (female) in the PESEL register on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.

How rare is this surname?

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How rare is this surname?

“1 in X” means that roughly one in every X people on this list has this surname. The bigger X, the rarer the name. The rank counts from the most common surname on the list.

male

about 1 in 31,127

#4,582 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 31,127 people counted in the PESEL register (male) bore the surname KRYGER on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

KRYGER (male) ranked 4,582 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #4,578MEJER682
  2. #4,578TOPOROWSKI682
  3. #4,582KRYGER this surname681
  4. #4,590BRZĘCZEK680
  5. #4,590CHROSTEK680

female

about 1 in 31,383

#4,642 rank on the surname list

About 1 in 31,383 people counted in the PESEL register (female) bore the surname KRYGER on 20 January 2026.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

KRYGER (female) ranked 4,642 among the surnames in this dataset.

Neighbours on the list
  1. #4,635ŁOBODZIŃSKA688
  2. #4,635SZAJNA688
  3. #4,642KRYGER this surname687
  4. #4,649SOPATA686
  5. #4,649WAWRZAK686

Two places above and two below on the same list. Surnames with the same count share a place.

Where is it most often registered?

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Where is it most often registered?

The map and the list show the voivodeships where people with this surname have a registered permanent address. The brighter the colour and the longer the bar, the bigger the share.

male

Among the 580 people with the surname KRYGER (male) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 26.9% were registered in POMORSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 2.6% (15)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 19.3% (112)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 4.1% (24)ŁÓDZKIE: 2.2% (13)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 0.3% (2)MAZOWIECKIE: 1.7% (10)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 26.9% (156)ŚLĄSKIE: 4.0% (23)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: 0.5% (3)WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 4.7% (27)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 24.7% (143)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 9.0% (52)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
POMORSKIE26.9%156
WIELKOPOLSKIE24.7%143
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE19.3%112
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE9.0%52
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE4.7%27
LUBUSKIE4.1%24
ŚLĄSKIE4.0%23
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE2.6%15
ŁÓDZKIE2.2%13
MAZOWIECKIE1.7%10
ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE0.5%3
MAŁOPOLSKIE0.3%2

female

Among the 615 people with the surname KRYGER (female) who had a registered voivodeship on 20 January 2026, 27.3% were registered in POMORSKIE.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

DOLNOŚLĄSKIE: 2.6% (16)KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE: 19.0% (117)LUBELSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroLUBUSKIE: 3.1% (19)ŁÓDZKIE: 3.6% (22)MAŁOPOLSKIE: 0.5% (3)MAZOWIECKIE: 2.1% (13)OPOLSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODKARPACKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPODLASKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroPOMORSKIE: 27.3% (168)ŚLĄSKIE: 6.5% (40)ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE: not listed in the dataset — not zeroWARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE: 5.5% (34)WIELKOPOLSKIE: 22.3% (137)ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE: 7.5% (46)

Hover over or tap a voivodeship to see its figures.

Share of people with a registered voivodeship, lowest first:
  • 0%–10%
  • 10%–20%
  • 20%–30%
  • 30%–40%
  • 40%–50%
  • not listed in the dataset — not zero
Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
VoivodeshipShareCount
POMORSKIE27.3%168
WIELKOPOLSKIE22.3%137
KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE19.0%117
ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE7.5%46
ŚLĄSKIE6.5%40
WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE5.5%34
ŁÓDZKIE3.6%22
LUBUSKIE3.1%19
DOLNOŚLĄSKIE2.6%16
MAZOWIECKIE2.1%13
MAŁOPOLSKIE0.5%3

How did this count change between editions of the list?

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How did this count change between editions of the list?

The PESEL register publishes its lists every year. We show the number of people with this surname on each edition, beside how the whole list changed. We say what changed, not why.

male

The number of people with the surname KRYGER (male) in the PESEL register changed from 706 on 30 June 2019 to 681 on 20 January 2026: −3.5%. The whole list changed by +6.7% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 28,130706
22 January 20201 in 28,277703
1 February 20211 in 28,759695
27 January 20221 in 29,112694
30 January 20231 in 30,288687
19 January 20241 in 30,578686
22 January 20251 in 30,888683
20 January 20261 in 31,127681

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

female

The number of people with the surname KRYGER (female) in the PESEL register changed from 726 on 30 June 2019 to 687 on 20 January 2026: −5.4%. The whole list changed by +6.5% between those editions.

VerifiedOfficial dataPoland · Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji · 20 January 2026

As ofShare of the listPeople
30 June 2019*1 in 27,892726
22 January 20201 in 28,123719
2 February 20211 in 28,380714
27 January 2022The publisher's file dated 27 January 2022 repeats the data of the previous edition, so it is not shown as an edition of its own.
30 January 20231 in 30,140709
19 January 20241 in 30,597702
22 January 20251 in 31,031694
20 January 20261 in 31,383687

* The 2019 files describe their contents in fewer words than the later ones. We read them as the same list: people with their current surname.

What does this surname mean?

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What does this surname mean?

We give a meaning only when a scholarly work supports it. We don't guess.

We have no sourced meaning for this surname. We could not find it in any scholarly work we are able to cite here, and we do not guess at meanings.

Where does it appear in old print?

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Where does it appear in old print?

Polona, the National Library's digital library, searches its catalogue and the text of its scanned pages. We show how many results it returns for this word, and from which years.

The word KRYGER appears on 3,234 pages of works not under copyright and in 10 catalogue records in Polona (searched on 4 October 2026).

VerifiedDigital libraryPoland · Biblioteka Narodowa · 4 October 2026

These are search results for the word in any inflected form. Some may be another meaning of the same spelling, and they are not a count of people or of mentions of anyone's family.

Pages by date of publication
  1. before 18006
  2. 1800–1849726
  3. 1850–18991,436
  4. 1900–1918324
  5. 1919–1939496
  6. 1940 on245

Catalogue records by kind

  • Photographs1

Most common places of publication

  • Warszawa1,500
  • Poznań935
  • Kraków96
  • Lwów67
  • Katowice55
  • Lublin42

Example pages in the public domain

„Brześć Kujawski Kryger Piotr Dzierzączka Płocka Nieszawa Kryński Franc. I Ortel B. Siedl.”

Spis alfabetyczny obywateli ziemskich Królewstwa Polskiego oraz dóbr przez nich posiadanych ze wskazaniem ostatniej stacji pocztowej1905 · p. 87 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Kryger. ~ ćTbwieścz e!”

Gazeta Wielkiego Xięstwa Poznańskiego 1819, nr 24 (24 marca)1819 · p. 9 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

„Skoro zaś następnie Senderowski oznajmił Kryge rowi, że dostał już paszport, to Kryger udał się z nim”

Gazeta Sądowa Warszawska R.8, nr 15 (10 kwietnia 1880)1880 · p. 4 · Polona, Biblioteka NarodowaOpen the page in Polona

Who well known has this surname?

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Who well known has this surname?

We have not looked this surname up in Wikidata yet.

How do we know?

Sources on this page

  • Official data Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji — Nazwiska występujące w rejestrze PESEL · 20 January 2026 · CC0 1.0 · Dane pochodzą z rejestru PESEL, Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0) · dane.gov.pl
  • Digital library Biblioteka Narodowa — Polona · Polona, Biblioteka Narodowa · polona.pl
How to read these figures
  • Wykaz nazwisk męskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Surnames occurring once are not published; absence from the dataset is not zero.
  • The publisher does not state whether the split is by a person's sex or by the grammatical gender of the surname form. The datasets are therefore neither summed nor compared numerically.
  • The male and female datasets are separate and are never summed.
  • Wykaz nazwisk żeńskich osób żyjących (wg pola nazwisko aktualne) występujących w rejestrze PESEL, stan na 20.01.2026
  • Denominator: 21,197,537 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • The 1-in-X figure is rounded; the count of people is exact.
  • Denominator: 21,560,302 people counted in the PESEL register — the sum of the published counts in this dataset, not Poland's population.
  • A permanent registered residence is an address in the register — not an actual address, and not information about a family's roots.
  • Shares are of the people with a registered voivodeship, not of every bearer of the surname.
  • The size of the list itself changes between editions, so beside the count we show the share of that edition's list (“1 in X”).
  • Polona's figures are search results for the word in any inflected form, in the catalogue and in the text of pages of works not under copyright; not every result is the surname.

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