Caraco
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑɹɑkoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caraco is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2M(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
- TNTunisia≈1 in 294K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 199K (inferred from the name graph)
170 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A kind of short coat or jacket worn by women.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Caraco is read(measured from records)
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 wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Hebrew16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caraco in Hebrew.
- French14%
loose blouse
as a wordkaikki.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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caraco 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.
170 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 170 | #105,079 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 167 | #100,194 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 164 | #113,565 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 69 | #83,359 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 20 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 19 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 17 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 8 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹɑkoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Caraco have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Caraco?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caracoThe 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, “Caraco”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.