Carena
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Spanish: bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Carena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 26K(measured from records)
- UYUruguay1 in 71K
- ITItaly≈1 in 83K
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.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
1,782 people
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
How Carena is read(measured from records)
Carena is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Spanish81%
bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English7.7%
Aminophylline.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carena 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,782 | 1 in 26K | 1.8K | Carena | 53 |
| IT Italy | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 83K | listed | Carena | 25 |
| PH Philippines | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 480K | — | Carena | 12 |
| FR France | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 633K | 6 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 4.3M | 411 | Carena | 45 |
| UY Uruguay | 48 | 1 in 71K | 48 | Carena | 7 |
| FI Finland | 10 | 1 in 557K | 25 | — | — |
1,782 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the xinhua-italian-manual register; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Carena is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In pi, instrumental singular of cara (“walker; frequenting”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, keel (of a ship)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to careen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CARENÁ, carenez, vb. I. Tranz. 1. A repara carena unei nave. ♦ A așeza o navă pe o coastă pentru a o repara. 2. A acoperi cu tablă suprafața exterioară a unui vehicul de mare viteză.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
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)
- Giacinto Carenab. 1778ITItalian botanist (1778-1859)
- Felice Carenab. 1879ITItalian painter (1879-1966)
- Felice Carenab. 1885ITItalian composer (1885–1937)
- Esther Carenab. 1898DEGerman actress (1898-1972)
- Anna Carenab. 1899ITItalian actress (1899-1990)
- Carlo Carenab. 1925ITItalian writer and translator (1925-2023)
- Antonio Carenab. 1925ITItalien painter (1925-2010)
- Marco Carenab. 1957ITItalian singer-songwriter
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 32 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.8K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 48 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 12 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 11 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #44,344 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 6 | — |
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
- What does the name Carena mean, and where does it come from?
- bottom (parts of a vessel that is always underwater) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Carena have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Carena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carena.
- Where is Carena most common?
- Carena is densest in Argentina, where the national register counts about 1 in 26 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Carena?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,782 people named Carena, about 1 in 26 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/carenaThe 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, “Carena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.