Careaga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: name for someone who lived on a patch of chalk soil, from Basque kare chalk, limestone + the local suffix -aga
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ka.ɾeˈa.ɣ̞a/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Careaga is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Mexico.
- PYParaguay
- CLChile
- MXMexico
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)name for someone who lived on a patch of chalk soil, from Basque kare chalk, limestone + the local suffix -aga. Carette see Charrette
Cited for this meaning 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Pilar Careaga Basabeb. 1908ESfirst female engineer from Spain and also a politician (1908-1993)
- Mercedes Careagab. 1908ESSpanish entrepreneur
- Ángel Careaga Ruizb. 1913ESSpanish association football player (1913-1936)
- Adolfo Careaga Fontechab. 1921ESSpanish politician
- Eugenio Martínezb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican activist (1922–2021)
- Alfredo Careagab. 1942MXMexican investigator
- Enrique Careagab. 1944PYParaguayan painter (1944-2014)
- Carmelo José Navarro Careagab. 1959ESSpanish association football player
- Javier Careagab. 1967MXswimmer
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 692 | #35,096 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 679 | #6,231 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 679 | #6,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 661 | #34,314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 570 | #36,917 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 71 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 70 | #82,471 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 70 | #2,213 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 4 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2015 | 1 | — |
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
- Where does the name Careaga come from?
- name for someone who lived on a patch of chalk soil, from Basque kare chalk, limestone + the local suffix -aga. Carette see Charrette Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Careaga?
- In Spanish /ka.ɾeˈa.ɣ̞a/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Careaga mean?
- Recorded meaning: name for someone who lived on a patch of chalk soil, from Basque kare chalk, limestone + the local suffix -aga.
- In which country does Careaga have the most bearers?
- Careaga is most frequently recorded in Mexico.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/careagaThe 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.
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, “Careaga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.