The Cresta surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 426 people carried this name — #49,365 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 714,300 people counted. That is up 9% from 390 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 542 people named Cresta 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 128 people named Cresta.
21 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 17 départements, most often Var.
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
105 people named Cresta live in Switzerland.
They live in 10 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 Cresta,
with a public archive behind them.
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Brian Cresta 1969– · politician -
Pedro Cresta 1912–1970 · sculptor
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María Luisa Cresta de Leguizamón 1918–2008 · writer
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Primo Cresta 1922–2003 · partisan
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Primo Cresta 1922–2003 · partisan
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Jacques Cresta 1955–2022 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 8 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Cresta.
- Crespi 620 · U.S. census
- Crespin 2,734 · U.S. census
- Crespo 17,629 · U.S. census
- Crespy 103 · U.S. census
- Cresson 176 · U.S. census
- Crest 251 · U.S. census
- Crestani 102 · U.S. census
- Cresto 283 · U.S. census
- Crete 416 · U.S. census
- Cretin 135 · U.S. census
- Cretu 231 · U.S. census
- Creutz 238 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Cresta is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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