Carano
surname · Latin script
Meaning: oriundo da cidade setentrional homônima; de quadranus
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑˈɹɑnoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carano is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 508K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 83K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 152K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 192 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 83K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
oriundo da cidade setentrional homônima; de quadranus
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carano 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 242K | — | Carano | 2 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | Carano | 19 |
| US United States | 655 | 1 in 508K | 670 | Carano | 192 |
| BR Brazil | 106 | 1 in 2M | 106 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 645K | — | Carano | 14 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Carano | 1 |
| IE Ireland | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Carano | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Carano | 2 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
- Giovanni Carano Donvitob. 1873ITItalian economist
- Enrico Caranob. 1877ITItalian botanist (1877-1943)
- Vincenzo Caranob. 1902ITItalian footballer
- Glenn Caranob. 1955USAmerican football player and casino executive (born 1955)
- Gina Caranob. 1982USAmerican actress and former mixed martial artist (born 1982)
- Kenneth CaranoUSAmerican politician
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 10 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 670 | #36,002 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 670 | #32,380 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 655 | #34,539 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 106 | #60,636 |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- How do you pronounce Carano?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑˈɹɑnoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Carano mean?
- Recorded meaning: oriundo da cidade setentrional homônima; de quadranus
- In which country does Carano have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.8 thousand people named Carano in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carano.
- How common is the name Carano?
- In the United States, the national register counted 655 people named Carano in 2010, about 1 in 508 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caranoThe 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, “Carano”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.