Chereau

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

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

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
  • ARArgentina1 in 2.8M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Argentina (measured from records)

16 people

Sources
18 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.2M (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

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.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chereau 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 Chereau is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina161 in 2.8M16——
ES Spain111 in 4.5M11—1
CH Switzerland71 in 1.2M7—2
BE Belgium51 in 2.3M5—2
CZ Czechia11 in 11M1——

16 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

Chereau is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Chêreau, Chéreau

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Chéreau

21 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Chereau
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—16—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—11#114,632
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#101,809
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20243#154,370

Reference works 1

  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Chereau have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 16 people named Chereau, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Chereau most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Chereau is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 1.2 million people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Chereau?
In Argentina, the national register counted 16 people named Chereau, about 1 in 2.8 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, “Chereau”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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