Ream
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɹiːm/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Ream is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 6,222 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- USUnited States1 in 53K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
6,222 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Ream
- English:/ɹiːm/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Ream is found
(measured from records)Ream 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.
6,222 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)Ream 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.
In Latin, accusative singular of rea
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fur, kingdom
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)- Rikki Rockettb. 1961USnot in their usual nameAmerican drummer
- Denise Reamb. 1965USAmerican film producer (born 1965)
- Tim Reamb. 1987USAmerican soccer player
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 10 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ream mean, and where does it come from?
- Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Ream?
- In the etymology graph, Ries and Rahm are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ream?
- In English /ɹiːm/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Ream?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 6.2 thousand people named Ream, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ream. After it come Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Ream most common?
- Ream is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 53 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ream?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,222 people named Ream in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/reamThe 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, “Ream” — ranked 5250th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.