Careño

surname · Latin script

Careño is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

  • UYUruguay1 in 31K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 800K
  • BRBrazil1 in 980K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

216 people

Record sources
33 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Careno in US United States, AR Argentina, UY Uruguay and 1 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Careño 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 Careño is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil2161 in 980K216——
US United States1271 in 2.6M128Careno33
UY Uruguay1091 in 31K109Careno9
FR France≈85 est.≈1 in 803K10——
ES Spain501 in 1M50Careno17
AR Argentina241 in 1.9M24Careno22

216 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

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

  • Portuguese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil

    Also written Careno

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Careno

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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 Careño 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

In which country does Careño have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 216 people named Careño, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Careño most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Careño is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Careño?
In Brazil, the national register counted 216 people named Careño, about 1 in 980 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, “Careño”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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