Lema — Family Name, Records and Arms

Heraldry follows families, not surnames. A Lema coat of arms, where one exists, belonged to a specific line.

Lema by the numbers

Official name counts are where our Lema file begins.

We do not guess at meanings: where the dictionaries are silent on Lema, the family's own records come first. The 2010 census count for Lema in the United States was 3,913, good for rank 8,439. Hispanic and Latino Americans made up 62% of the total. Spain's INE counts 6,637 residents with Lema as first surname and 6,726 with it as second. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Leme and Lima.

Get the complete Lema report, with a museum-style coat of arms.