Cemer

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Cemer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 2.5M(measured from records)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 272K
  • NONorway1 in 342K

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.

United States (measured from records)

132 people, 2010

Sources
88 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 272K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cemer 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 Cemer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1321 in 2.5M132Cemer88
PH Philippines≈45 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Cemer2
IN India≈33 est.≈1 in 40M—Cemer1
GB United Kingdom≈28 est.≈1 in 2.3M—Cemer5
PL Poland221 in 1.7M12——
IE Ireland≈19 est.≈1 in 272K—Cemer1
NO Norway161 in 342K16—1

132 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Cemer is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States

    Also written Çemer, Čemer

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ćemer, Çemer

  • Croatian surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Čemer, Ćemer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Čemer

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Čemer

13 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cemer is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Sundanese, lose one’s power, influence or purity; become ordinary or impure

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In sas, foul, impure; damp, moist; unsafe (because of sorcery)

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ban, ceremonially unclean

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Javanese, soggy, messy, muddy

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Cemer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020132#133,220
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010132#129,047
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000119#131,366
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—16#46,380
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#119,870
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202610—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—10#132,127
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Cemer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 132 people named Cemer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cemer.
How common is the name Cemer?
In the United States, the national register counted 132 people named Cemer in 2010, about 1 in 2.5 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, “Cemer”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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