Caréna

surname · Latin script

Caréna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Latin carīna, borrowed via Ligurian.

  • ARArgentina1 in 26K(measured from records)
  • UYUruguay1 in 71K
  • FIFinland1 in 557K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Argentina (measured from records)

1,782 people

Record sources
86 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carena in CH Switzerland.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Latin carīna, borrowed via Ligurian.

Cited for this meaning 2

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Caréna 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.

Where Caréna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina1,7821 in 26K1.8K——
UY Uruguay481 in 71K48——
BR Brazil441 in 4.8M44——
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15—1
CH Switzerland141 in 600K14Carena7
FI Finland101 in 557K25——

1,782 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Caréna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Philippines, Uruguay, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Carena, Careña, Çàrēñâ

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria

    Also written Carena, Careña

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Caréna under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Caréna mean, and where does it come from?
From Latin carīna, borrowed via Ligurian. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
In which country does Caréna have the most bearers?
In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Caréna, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Caréna most common?
Caréna is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Caréna?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,782 people named Caréna, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.

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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, “Caréna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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