Carella
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Caro com suf. fem
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kaɾeʎa/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Carella is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 36K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 89K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 162K
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 Carella 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
- 1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
781 people, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)de Caro com suf. fem. sing. -ella
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world
(measured from records)Carella 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 781 | 1 in 426K | 849 | Carella | 3 |
| AR Argentina | 509 | 1 in 89K | 509 | — | — |
| IN India | 289as Karella | 1 in 4.6M | 289 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 95 | 1 in 36K | 95 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 55 | 1 in 3.8M | 55 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 52 | 1 in 162K | 52 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 45 | 1 in 260K | 45 | — | — |
781 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 2000; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Tulio Carellab. 1912ARArgentinian writer and journalist
- Aurelio Carellab. 1924ITItalian painter and folklorist (1924-1988)
- Carlos Carellab. 1925ARArgentinian actor (1925–1997)
- Antonio Carellab. 1949ITItalian film director and screenwriter
- Renzo Carellab. 1951ITItalian politician
- Enzo Carellab. 1952ITItalian singer-songwriter (1952-2017)
- Giuliano Carellab. 1956ITItalian conductor (born 1961)
- Maria Carellab. 1969ITItalian demographer (born 1969)
- Nicholas Carellab. 1980CACanadian actor
- Carlos J. Martijena-CarellaUSrole-playing game designer
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 849 | #26,898 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 810 | #30,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 781 | #30,043 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 509 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 95 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 55 | #98,063 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 52 | #18,109 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 45 | #28,198 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Where does the name Carella come from?
- de Caro com suf. fem. sing. -ella Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Carella?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /kaɾeʎa/; in Italian /karɛlla/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Carella mean?
- Recorded meaning: de Caro com suf. fem.
- In which country does Carella have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 781 people named Carella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carella.
- Where is Carella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carella is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 36 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 781 people named Carella in 2010, about 1 in 426 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Carella?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carellaThe 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, “Carella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.