Caraco

• French:/ka.ʁa.ko/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
• Spanish:/kaɾako/○(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Caraco is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English49%

  A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Hebrew16%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Caraco in Hebrew.

• French14%

  loose blouse

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish10%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Caraco in Spanish.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Caraco is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Caracó, Caracò, Caraço

• French surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States, Canada

  Also written Caracò

• Italian surname4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Italy, United States

  Also written Caracò, Caraco', Caracó

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Caracò, Caracó

• Hindi surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Caracò

20 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.

• Albert Caracob. 1918FRFrench journalist (1918–1997)
• Albert Caracob. 1919FRFrench-Uruguayan philosopher

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).

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Caraco mean, and where does it come from?

A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

How do you pronounce Caraco?

It depends on the language: in French /ka.ʁa.ko/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /kaɾako/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

Which countries have the most people with the surname Caraco?

In the United States, the national register counted about 170 people named Caraco, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caraco. After it come Tanzania, France, Italy and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.

Where is Caraco most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Caraco is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 199 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Caraco?

In the United States, the national register counted 170 people named Caraco in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.