Crema
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: cream (cosmetic product) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
/kɾemɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Crema is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 2,227 people, counted by IBGE.
- ITItaly≈1 in 28Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 95K
- UYUruguay1 in 169K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
2,227 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Crema
- Portuguese:/kɾemɐ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/kɾema/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Italian:/ˈkrɛ.ma/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
How Crema is read
(measured from records)Crema is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Portuguese35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Crema in Portuguese.
- Spanish23%
cream (cosmetic product)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English23%
The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian7.0%
cream
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
oriundo da cidade de Crema; da raiz pré-latina cram/crem, pedra, rocha
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- French6.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Crema in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Crema is found
(measured from records)Crema 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.
2,227 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Crema is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Milano, Italia
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of cremō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Giovanni Battista Cremab. 1883ITItalian painter (1883-1964)
- Giovanni Cremab. 1947ITItalian politician and mayor
- JP Chermontb. 2006BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player (2006-)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Crema come from?
- The light-colored, orangish head of foam on a cup of espresso. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Crema?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /kɾemɐ/; in Spanish /kɾema/; in Italian /ˈkrɛ.ma/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Crema mean?
- In Spanish, cream (cosmetic product)
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Crema?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Crema, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled crema. After it come Italy, Philippines, Argentina and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Crema?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 2,227 people named Crema, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Crema?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cremaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Crema” — ranked 4420th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.