Quemá

surname · Latin script

Meaning: second-person singular voseo imperative of quemar

Quemá is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 201K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 107K
  • BOBolivia≈1 in 269K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈540 people, est.

Sources
45 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 107K (inferred from the name graph)

Guatemala, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Quema in PH Philippines, US United States, GT Guatemala and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

second-person singular voseo imperative of quemar

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Quemá counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Quemá is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈540 est.≈1 in 201K—Quema28
GT Guatemala≈160 est.≈1 in 107K—Quema6
US United States≈94 est.≈1 in 3.5M—Quema45
FR France≈79 est.≈1 in 860K14—1
CO Colombia≈76 est.≈1 in 649K—Quema17
BO Bolivia≈43 est.≈1 in 269K—Quema9
ES Spain101 in 5M10Quema9

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Quemá is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Quema

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Quemá under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Quemá mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular voseo imperative of quemar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Quemá have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 543 people named Quemá in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled quema.
How common is the name Quemá?
In Spain, the national register counted 10 people named Quemá, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Quemá”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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