Find out how popular the last name Cmar is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Cmar.

Cmar, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Cmar surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Cmar in America

Cmar is the 101247th most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Cmar surname appeared 178 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Cmar.

We can also compare 2010 data for Cmar to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Cmar

The surname CMAR originated in Scotland in the late 15th century. It is believed to be a variant spelling of the Scottish name MacMar, which itself derives from the Gaelic 'mac mhair', meaning 'son of the great one'. The name may have originated in the Scottish Highlands, but its earliest recorded use was in the coastal Lowlands region.

One of the earliest documented references to the name CMAR can be found in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, a series of administrative records from the medieval Scottish government. A John CMAR is listed as a landholder in Ayrshire in 1498.

By the 16th century, the name had spread to other parts of Scotland, including the Borders region. In 1587, a William CMAR is recorded as a merchant in the town of Jedburgh. Around the same time, a variant spelling 'Cmair' appeared in parish records from Dumfriesshire.

The CMAR name is also connected to several place names in Scotland. The village of Carmair in Angus may have derived its name from the surname, or vice versa. Similarly, the lands of Craigmair in Aberdeenshire were once owned by a family of that spelling in the 17th century.

Notable historical figures with the surname CMAR include:

1. Robert CMAR (c.1570-1644), a Scottish minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1642.

2. Janet CMAR (c.1620-1688), one of the last people convicted of witchcraft in Scotland, tried and executed in Paisley in 1688.

3. Alexander CMAR (1782-1860), a Scottish soldier who served in the Napoleonic Wars and later became a farmer in Lanarkshire.

4. Margaret CMAR (1815-1891), a Scottish poet whose works were published in local anthologies in the 19th century.

5. James CMAR (1867-1943), a Scottish engineer who emigrated to Canada and helped construct the Panama Canal in the early 1900s.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Cmar

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Cmar.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Cmar was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Cmar has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Cmar was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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