Caral

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Caral is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
  • IEIreland≈1 in 273K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 1.2M

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)

228 people, 2020

Sources
114 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 273K (inferred from the name graph)

Ireland, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Caral 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 Caral is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2281 in 1.5M165Caral114
GB United Kingdom≈49 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Caral21
BR Brazil391 in 5.4M95Caral13
CA Canada≈25 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Caral6
ES Spain≈19 est.≈1 in 2.7M48Caral23
IE Ireland≈19 est.≈1 in 273K—Caral1
BO Bolivia≈9 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Caral8
SG Singapore≈5 est.≈1 in 1.2M—Caral4

228 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Caral is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye

    Also written Çaral

40 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)

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 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Caral
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—95#65,801
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—48#45,765
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—48#45,681

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

Is Caral a male or female name?
Caral is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Caral have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 228 people named Caral, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caral.
How common is the name Caral?
In the United States, the national register counted 228 people named Caral in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.

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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.

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, “Caral”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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