Kramer
#9,358 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kramer has been given to 514 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #9,358 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 70 recorded.
Babies named Kramer, 2025
1 in 414,000
Kramer over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kramer?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,358
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kramer sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kramer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kramers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kramer was born before 1992 — so the typical Kramer is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 66.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 503
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 66.1% of all recorded uses (336).
Is Kramer rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,021
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 11.4%
- Peak was 1989 (70)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 52.8% average annual change
Spellings of Kramer
Kramer is not the most common spelling — Kwame is, with 26.9% against Kramer's 3.5%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Kramer is used
Across 1910–2025, Kramer was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 166,067 across all states with data. It was least common in Nebraska (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Washington1 in 25,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Nebraska1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Kramer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Kramer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Kramer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kramer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.