Caraballo

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Caraballo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. In Cuba it is the 30th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Caraballo.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 362(measured from records)
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 542
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 910

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.

Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)

≈30,000 people, est.

Sources
311 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 362 (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Spanish Caraballo.

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caraballo 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 Caraballo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
VE Venezuela#179≈30,000 est.≈1 in 965—Caraballo66
US United States—12,5461 in 27K13KCaraballo311
DO Dominican Republic#92≈12,000 est.≈1 in 910—Caraballo48
CU Cuba#30≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1K—Caraballo19
UY Uruguay#589,3621 in 3629.4KCaraballo53
PR Puerto Rico#38≈5,900 est.≈1 in 542—Caraballo57

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 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Caraballo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, Philippines

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Çaraballo, Cáraballo, Çãråbâllõ

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Карабальо

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1960198020002020Ramón Caraballo, b. 1969Francisco Alberto Caraballo, b. 1973Aday Benítez, b. 1987Alejandra Caraballo, b. 1990Luis Caraballo, b. 1991Soleymi Caraballo, b. 1994Oliver Caraballo, b. 1994Lucia Caraballo, b. 1999Ricardo Caraballo, b. 2004Jesús Rodríguez Caraballo, b. 2005

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Caraballo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202013K#2,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201013K#2,872
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020009.8K#3,342
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—9.4K—
US United Stateswru 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 Caraballo mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Spanish Caraballo. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Caraballo have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 30 thousand people named Caraballo in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caraballo.
Where is Caraballo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caraballo is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 362 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Caraballo?
In the United States, the national register counted 12,546 people named Caraballo in 2010, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
How common is Caraballo compared with other names?
In Venezuela, Caraballo is the 179th most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Caraballo” — the 179th most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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