The Cima surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 558 people carried this name — #39,419 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is down 6% from 594 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Cima surname
A topographic surname from cima (“mountain top, peak”).
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Cima» (Italian), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 1,006 people named Cima live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 118 people named Cima.
43 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 20 départements, most often Bouches-du-Rhône.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
115 people named Cima live in Switzerland.
They live in 6 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Ticino.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Cima,
with a public archive behind them.
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Camillo Cima 1827–1908 · playwright -
Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano 1459–1517 · painter
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Giovanni Paolo Cima 1570–1622 · composer
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Andrea Cima 1580–1627 · composer
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Tullio Cima 1595–1678 · composer
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Alvise Cima 1643–1710 · artist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cima.
- Ciesielski 1,555 · U.S. census
- Ciesla 1,237 · U.S. census
- Cieslak 1,746 · U.S. census
- Cieslik 501 · U.S. census
- Cilia 454 · U.S. census
- Cilli 267 · U.S. census
- Cimino 4,897 · U.S. census
- Cimmino 556 · U.S. census
- Cinar 286 · U.S. census
- Cinelli 993 · U.S. census
- Cini 420 · U.S. census
- Cino 550 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cima is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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