Caradec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Breton name, from Celtic elements; etymology uncertain
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/kaʀadək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caradec is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in France.
- FRFrance
- ESSpain
- BRBrazil
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Breton name, from Celtic elements; etymology uncertain.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
- FRFrance
- USUnited States
- BRBrazil
- ARArgentina
- ESSpain
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Caradec is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Origine celtique, signifie « ami ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Vincent-Jean-Marie Caradecb. 1783FRFrench politician (1783-1862)
- Louis Caradecb. 1802FRBreton painter (1802-1888)
- Albert Caradecb. 1831FRFrench politician (1831–1916)
- François Caradecb. 1924FRFrench writer (1924-2008)
- Odile Caradecb. 1925FRFrench poet and writer (1925–2021)
- Jean-Michel Caradecb. 1946FRFrench singer-songwriter (1946-1981)
- Loïc Caradecb. 1948FRFrench yacht racer (1948-1986)
- Vincent Caradecb. 1953FRFrench sociologist
- Jean-Claude Caradecb. 1955FRFrench politician
- Mickaël Caradecb. 1982FRFrench footballer
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 333 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 330 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 322 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 294 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 271 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 261 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 258 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 251 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 218 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 202 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 122 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 8 | #72,019 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 Caradec mean, and where does it come from?
- Breton name, from Celtic elements; etymology uncertain. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How do you pronounce Caradec?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʀadək/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Caradec have the most bearers?
- Caradec is most frequently recorded in France.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caradecThe 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
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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, “Caradec”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.