Creus

surname · Latin script

Meaning: cape, Spain

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

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

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 81K
  • ARArgentina1 in 189K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

1,753 people

Sources
111 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

cape, Spain

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Creus 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 Creus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain1,7531 in 29K1.8KCreus111
PH Philippines≈1,300 est.≈1 in 81K—Creus34
FR France≈430 est.≈1 in 158K50Creus2
AR Argentina2411 in 189K241Creus36
BE Belgium1821 in 64K182Creus14
UY Uruguay621 in 55K62Creus11

1,753 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Créus

  • Serbian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Languages: Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Creüs

37 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Teresa Claramunt, b. 1862Julian Creus, b. 1917Miguel Albareda Creus, b. 1919Antonio Creus, b. 1924Jaume Creus i del Castillo, b. 1950Miquel Desclot, b. 1952Miquel Creus, b. 1955Joan Creus, b. 1956Jordi Creus, b. 1958Xavi Hernández, b. 1980

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 18 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Creus
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.8K#2,705
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.8K#2,705
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—241—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008182#9,254
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198164—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—62—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195161—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196151—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197148—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194143—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193132—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

What does the name Creus mean, and where does it come from?
cape, Spain Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Creus have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Creus, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled creus.
Where is Creus most common?
Creus is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Creus?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,753 people named Creus, about 1 in 29 thousand 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, “Creus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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