Carro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: cart
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/karo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 733(measured from records)
- ESSpain1 in 7.4K
- ARArgentina1 in 13K
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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 733 (inferred from the name graph)
6,775 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
cart
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carro 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #702 | 6,775 | 1 in 7.4K | 6.8K | Carro | 146 |
| UY Uruguay | #138 | 4,624 | 1 in 733 | 4.6K | Carro | 33 |
| AR Argentina | #980 | 3,507 | 1 in 13K | 3.5K | Carro | 65 |
| US United States | — | 922 | 1 in 361K | 945 | Carro | 136 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 74K | listed | Carro | 57 |
| CR Costa Rica | #659 | 125 | 1 in 41K | 125 | Carro | 17 |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | — | — |
6,775 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the xinhua-italian-manual register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Carro is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, do latim carrus; também pode indicar oriundo da cidade de Carro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Portuguese, car, cart, buggy
as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
In Italian, a means of transport used to carry goods; a wagon, cart, van, lorry or truck
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, cart (vehicle drawn or pushed by a person or animal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mwl, automobile, car
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean de Carrob. 1770CHSwiss doctor of French origin
- Antonio Carro Martínezb. 1923ESSpanish politician (1923-2020)
- Antonio Carro Fernández-Valmayorb. 1945ESSpanish politician and lawyer
- Fernando Carrob. 1964ESSpanish businessman and football executive
- Walter Garcíab. 1965ESnot in their usual nameSpeaker
- Osvaldo Carrob. 1973UYUruguayan footballer
- Gastón Pezzutib. 1976ARnot in their usual nameArgentine association football player
- Luciana Carrob. 1981CACanadian actress
- Alejandro Carrob. 1984ESSpanish film actor
- Fernando Carrob. 1992ESSpanish athletics competitor
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 6.8K | #805 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6.8K | #805 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 4.6K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 3.5K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 945 | #27,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 922 | #26,471 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 890 | #25,926 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 125 | #1,283 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carro mean, and where does it come from?
- cart Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carro?
- A machine transcription gives /karo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What are other forms of the name Carro?
- In the etymology graph, Carrillo, Carretero and Carreira are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Carro have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 6.8 thousand people named Carro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carro.
- Where is Carro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carro is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 733 people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carro?
- In Spain, the national register counted 6,775 people named Carro, about 1 in 7.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Carro compared with other names?
- In Spain, Carro is the 702nd most common surname of 395,154 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carroThe 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, “Carro” — the 702nd most common surname in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.