Given name & surname
Kramer
“a shopkeeper”
Kramer is used as a given name and a surname. One German interpretation is “a shopkeeper.”
Original GermanKrämer
Meaning & origin
What it means
One German interpretation is “a shopkeeper.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is German.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1916. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Kramer through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 514
- 508 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 70 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,362 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,362 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 70 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 601 as a first name in 2020; 60,950 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Kramer’s family of names
Kramer has a related form in Kraemar. Kramer has a related form in Kraemer. Kramer has a related form in Kraimar.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Kramer has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Kramer comes from · 35 names
Nicknames & forms 44
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Cramervariant · German
- Sagervariant · German
- Cremervariant · German, Dutch
- Krämervariant · German
- Tschammervariant · German
- Schammervariant · German
- Mercatorvariant · German
- Kschammervariant · German
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- Krümmervariant · German
- Krummervariant · German
- Kruemmervariant · German
- Krommervariant · German
- Krömervariant · German
- Kromervariant · German
- Krohmervariant · German
- Kroemervariant · German
- Kremmervariant · German
- Kremersvariant · German
- Kremervariant · German
- Krämmervariant · German
- Krammervariant · German
- Kramersvariant · German
- Kramerekvariant · German
- Kramarzvariant · German
- Kramarvariant · German
- Krähmervariant · German
- Krahmervariant · German
- Kraemmervariant · German
- Kraemervariant · German
- Kraehmervariant · German
- Gromervariant · German
- Gremervariant · German
- Grämervariant · German
- Gramervariant · German
- Cremersvariant · German, Dutch
- Kraemarvariant
- Kraimarvariant
- Kraymarvariant
- Kraimervariant
- Kraymervariant
- Kramyrvariant
- Kramurvariant
- Kramirvariant
- Kramorvariant
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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