The Cremer surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,239 people carried this name — #21,184 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 238,100 people counted. That is down 16% from 1,479 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 677 people named Cremer live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 291 people named Cremer.
27 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 40 départements, most often Paris.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere 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
62 people named Cremer live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
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.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 38 people named Cremer 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.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
22 people named Cremer is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Cremer,
with a public archive behind them.
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Cremer Cremer 1768–1808 -
Anne Buckle 1772–1860 -
Johann Peter Cremer 1785–1863 · architect -
Frances Valerie Anne Cremer d. 2014
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Arabella Cremer d. 1874
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Abraham Cremer 1558–1627 · teacher
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 9 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cremer.
- Crave 100 · U.S. census
- Cravero 155 · U.S. census
- Crea 794 · U.S. census
- Creach 559 · U.S. census
- Cregut 108 · U.S. census
- Crema 160 · U.S. census
- Cremers 350 · U.S. census
- Cremona 230 · U.S. census
- Crepeau 918 · U.S. census
- Crescenzo 685 · U.S. census
- Cresci 526 · U.S. census
- Crespi 620 · U.S. census
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