Cariñosa
surname · Latin script
Meaning: prostitute (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Cariñosa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 4.2Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador≈1 in 260Kfew records
- PAPanama≈1 in 470Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ecuador (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 256K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Carinosa in PH Philippines.
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)prostitute
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Cariñosa is found
(measured from records)Cariñosa 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.
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.
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)Cariñosa 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 Filipino, cariñosa (Philippine dance of Hispanic-era origin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Asturian, feminine singular of cariñosu
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cariñosa mean, and where does it come from?
- prostitute Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cariñosa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 people named Cariñosa in Ecuador, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cariñosa. After it come Chile, Mexico, Philippines and Colombia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Cariñosa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 people in Ecuador have Cariñosa as their first surname, about 1 in 256 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Cariñosa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cari%C3%B1osaThe 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, “Cariñosa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.