Cru
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɾu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cru is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 118K(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 794K
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9M
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
1,790 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cru is read(measured from records)
Cru is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Spanish49%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cru in Spanish.
- English19%
A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French10%
raw (uncooked, unprocessed)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese5.9%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cru in Portuguese.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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 in the world(measured from records)
Cru 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 1,790 | 1 in 118K | 1.8K | — | — |
| ES Spain | 63 | 1 in 794K | 63 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 3 | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | — | 805 | Cru | 6 |
| FR France | — | — | 14 | — | — |
1,790 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Cru 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.
Ponte de Lima, Viana do Castelo
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, cru (vineyard known for its quality without official rankings)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, raw; unprocessed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, raw (uncooked)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.8K | #5,423 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 63 | #37,821 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 63 | #37,783 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 33 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 26 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 24 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 21 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Cru?
- In the etymology graph, Crudo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Cru mean, and where does it come from?
- A vineyard or group of vineyards in France, especially one having a high reputation. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cru?
- A machine transcription gives /kɾu/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cru have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Cru, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Cru most common?
- Cru is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 118 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Cru?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,790 people named Cru, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cruThe 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, “Cru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.