Carela
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Carela is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 2.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 785K
- PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 90K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 99 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Carela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #194 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Carela | 29 |
| US United States | — | 424 | 1 in 785K | 538 | Carela | 99 |
| ES Spain | — | 145 | 1 in 345K | 145 | Carela | 31 |
| IN India | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | — | Carela | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 44 | 1 in 4.8M | 44 | Carela | 6 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Carela | 2 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 16 | 1 in 212K | 16 | Carela | 4 |
| PA Panama | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 494K | — | Carela | 4 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 538 | #43,268 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 424 | #49,546 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 308 | #61,058 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 145 | #21,041 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 145 | #21,001 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 44 | #114,634 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- In which country does Carela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.8 thousand people named Carela in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carela.
- How common is the name Carela?
- In the United States, the national register counted 424 people named Carela in 2010, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
- How common is Carela compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Carela is the 194th most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carelaThe 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, “Carela” — the 194th most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.