Caruş

surname · Latin script

Caruş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: the ‘house on wet ground’ or ‘house by the brushwood’, from ME kerr wet ground or brushwood (ON kjarr\ see Kerr) + h(o)us house (OE/nis). Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 516K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 121K
  • ESSpain1 in 133K

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)

376 people

Sources
22 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)

Argentina

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carus in TR Türkiye.

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)

the ‘house on wet ground’ or ‘house by the brushwood’, from ME kerr wet ground or brushwood (ON kjarr\ see Kerr) + h(o)us house (OE/nis). Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss. Carruthers Scots: habitation name from a place near

Sources 1

  • A dictionary of surnames

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caruş 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 Caruş is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain3761 in 133K376—1
AR Argentina3761 in 121K376——
BR Brazil3681 in 575K368——
US United States2511 in 1.3M251—3
TR Türkiye≈160 est.≈1 in 516K—Carus22
DK Denmark191 in 309K19——

376 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Caruş is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili

    Also written Carus, Carús, Çarus

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 Caruş 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

What does the name Caruş mean, and where does it come from?
the ‘house on wet ground’ or ‘house by the brushwood’, from ME kerr wet ground or brushwood (ON kjarr\ see Kerr) + h(o)us house (OE/nis). Vars.: Carass, Carras, Caress, Car(r)iss. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
In which country does Caruş have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 376 people named Caruş, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Caruş most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caruş is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Caruş?
In Spain, the national register counted 376 people named Caruş, about 1 in 133 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, “Caruş”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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