Carty
surname · Latin script
Meaning: From Irish Gaelic Ó Cárthaigh, ‘descendant of Cárthach’, a name meaning literally ‘loving’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈkɑɹti/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carty is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- IEIreland≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 26K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 38K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- 1 in 336 (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Kitts & Nevis
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)
From Irish Gaelic Ó Cárthaigh, ‘descendant of Cárthach’, a name meaning literally ‘loving’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carty 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Carty | 4 |
| US United States | — | 6,332 | 1 in 53K | 6.3K | Carty | 360 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Carty | 176 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 103K | — | Carty | 15 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Carty | 117 |
| IE Ireland | #515 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Carty | 98 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Carty | 103 |
| JM Jamaica | #501 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Carty | 13 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 160 | 1 in 336 | 160 | — | 11 |
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; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. 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)
- John Joseph Cartyb. 1861US(1861-1932) American electrical engineer
- Paddy Cartyb. 1929IEIrish musician
- Jay Cartyb. 1941USAmerican basketball player (1941–2017)
- John Cartyb. 1953IEIrish musician
- Todd Cartyb. 1963IEBritish actor
- Germán Cartyb. 1968PEPeruvian footballer
- Johndale Cartyb. 1977USAmerican gridiron football player
- Jack Cartyb. 1992IEIrish rugby union player
- Ashley Cartyb. 1995GBEnglish snooker player
- Luciano Cartyb. 2001NLDutch association football player
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 25 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,497 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 6.1K | #5,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 5.8K | #5,507 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 160 | #63 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Carty mean, and where does it come from?
- From Irish Gaelic Ó Cárthaigh, ‘descendant of Cárthach’, a name meaning literally ‘loving’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Carty?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɹti/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Carty have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Carty in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carty.
- Where is Carty most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carty is densest in St. Kitts & Nevis — about 1 in 336 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 6,332 people named Carty in 2010, about 1 in 53 thousand residents.
- How common is Carty compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Carty is the 501st most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cartyThe 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, “Carty” — the 501st most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.