Carrion

Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)

Locally spelled Carrión in UY Uruguay.

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)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carrion is read●(measured from records)

Carrion is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• Spanish69%

  Equivs. (not cogn.): French; Chapuis; Boissier. Ger.: ZiMMERMANN. Polish: Cieslak (q.v. for other Slav, words). Russ.: Plotnik. Hung.; Acs. places, for example in the provinces of Ciudad Real, Palencia, Seville, and Valladolid, so called.

  as a name·The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

  places, for example in the provinces of Ciudad Real, Palencia, Seville, and Valladolid, so called. Cogn.: Cat.: Carrio.

  as a name·A dictionary of surnames

• English18%

  Rotting flesh of a dead animal or person.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Other names spelled this way◐(inferred from the name graph)

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

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Ecuador

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Carrión

• a separate name4 spellings in the group

  Also written Carriòn, Carrión, Carríon

• Swahili surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Peru, United States, Ecuador, Spain

  Also written Carrión

• Croatian surname12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Peru, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

  Also written Carrión, Carriòn

40 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)

• Louis Carrionb. 1547BEFlamish philologist and jurist
• Ambrosi Carrion i Juanb. 1888ESCatalan writer and poet (1888-1973)
• Rafael Carbonellb. 1943CUnot in their usual nameCuban boxer
• Audrey Carrionb. 1958USAmerican judge
• Véronique Carrion-Bastokb. 1963FRFrench politician
• Danieska Carriónb. 1980CUCuban judoka
• Gladys Carrionb. 2000USCommissioner, Administration for Children's Services
• Carme CarrionESresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0003-1479-7551
• Galo CarrionECChair of the School of Graphic Design at Universidad de Cuenca
• Natalie CarrionSouthern Sámi-Caribbean-Swedish artist

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)

Evidence●(measured from records)

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Carrion mean, and where does it come from?

Equivs. (not cogn.): French; Chapuis; Boissier. Ger.: ZiMMERMANN. Polish: Cieslak (q.v. for other Slav, words). Russ.: Plotnik. Hung.; Acs. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.

How do you pronounce Carrion?

A machine transcription gives /karjon/ (IPA) for Spanish.

In which country does Carrion have the most bearers?

In Ecuador, the national register counted about 25 thousand people named Carrion, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrion.

Where is Carrion most common?

Carrion is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 681 people carrying it.

How common is the name Carrion?

In Ecuador, the national register counted 24,840 people named Carrion in 2024, about 1 in 681 residents.

How common is Carrion compared with other names?

In Ecuador, Carrion is the 108th most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.