Carrión

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

/kaˈrjon/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary

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Carrión is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country: 24,840 people, counted by INEC in 2024. Recorded meaning: From Middle English caroigne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman caroigne, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”). Compare French charogne and the English doublet crone. Carrión is also written Каррион in Cyrillic.

  • ECEcuador1 in 681(measured from records)
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 990few records
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 1.3K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Carrión itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

24,840 people, 2024

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
361 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 681 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Carrión in other scripts: Cyrillic

(measured from records)
CarriónLatin(measured from records)
КаррионCarrión in Cyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carrion in PE Peru, US United States, ES Spain and 4 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.

How to pronounce Carrión

  • Spanish:/kaˈrjon/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
  • Portuguese:/kɐʁjɔn/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)
Derivation of Carrión: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Carrión
  1. Middle Englishcaroigne(measured from records)
  2. Anglo-Normancaroigne(measured from records)
  3. Vulgar Latin*carōnia(measured from records)
  4. Latincaro“flesh”(measured from records)

From Middle English caroigne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman caroigne, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”). Compare French charogne and the English doublet crone. The regular modern English form would be *carren, *carron /ˈkæɹ.ən/ (this is found dialectally; see similar kyarn); the intervening /i/ is probably a hypercorrection based on the analogy of words like merlin/merlion.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Carrión is found

(measured from records)

Carrión 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 Carrión is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#10824,8401 in 68125KCarrion71
PE Peru#212≈24,000 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Carrion84
ES Spain#20918,3851 in 2.7K18KCarrion168
US United States—10,3161 in 32K11KCarrion361
MX Mexico—≈9,200 est.≈1 in 14K140Carrion118
NI Nicaragua#162≈5,500 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Carrion26
PR Puerto Rico#105≈3,200 est.≈1 in 990—Carrion52
UY Uruguay—1,8471 in 1.8K1.8KCarrión28

24,840 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Carrión is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Carrion, Carriòn, Carríon

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Ecuador

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Carrion

  • Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ecuador, Spain

    Also written Carrion

  • Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Ecuador

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Carrion, Carriòn

31 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1850190019502000Daniel Alcides Carrión, b. 1857Patricia Manterola, b. 1972Aitor Ocio, b. 1976

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)
FormalEstimado/a Carrión,Dear Carrión, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Carrión,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Carrión mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English caroigne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman caroigne, from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”). Compare French charogne and the English doublet crone. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
How do you pronounce Carrión?
It depends on the language: in Spanish /kaˈrjon/ (Wiktionary); in Portuguese /kɐʁjɔn/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Carrión?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Carrión, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrion. After it come Peru, Spain, United States and Mexico; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Carrión most common?
Carrión is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 681 people carrying it.
How common is the name Carrión?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 24,840 people named Carrión in 2024, about 1 in 681 residents.
How common is Carrión compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Carrión is the 108th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Carrión” — ranked 173rd in Ecuador (INEC, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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