Last Name CRAMER

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Meaning The creamer, i.e. huckster, or pedlar. 'Cream, craim,' and 'crame' denoted a market booth or stall, and 'creamer' or 'camer' was the occupant. '...creamers, persons who go through the parish...and buy butter, hens, eggs, etc, mostly for the Dundee market.'
From 'kramer,' a retail dealer.
Origin English, German, Jewish, Spanish, Danish, Irish, Romanian, Falkland, Austrian, Belgian, South african, Hungarian

Rank 1,077 (2000 US census) 1,158 (1990 US census)
Count 29,666 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 95.22%, or 28248 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.22%, or 362 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.5%, or 148 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.49%, or 145 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.18%, or 350 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.39%, or 412 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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