Karaš
surname · Latin script
Meaning: second-person singular present of karati (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995
Karaš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 9,187 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Karaš is also written Карас in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 4.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.4K
- CZCzechia1 in 6.9K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Karaš 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
9,187 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Karaš in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Karas in US United States, HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.
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)second-person singular present of karati
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Karaš is found
(measured from records)Karaš 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.
9,187 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Karaš mean, and where does it come from?
- second-person singular present of karati Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Karaš?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 9.2 thousand people named Karaš, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Czechia, Slovakia and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Karaš most common?
- Karaš is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Karaš?
- In Poland, the national register counted 9,187 people named Karaš in 2026, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Karaš compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Karaš is the 921st most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Karaš?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kara%C5%A1The 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, “Karaš” — ranked 412th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.