Caria
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in French: third-person singular past historic of carier
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɐɾiɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caria is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 139K(measured from records)
- PTPortugal≈1 in 15K
- ITItaly≈1 in 22K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Portugal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular past historic of carier
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Caria is read(measured from records)
Caria is one spelling over 5 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.
- Portuguese28%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caria in Portuguese.
- Spanish22%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caria in Spanish.
- French19%
third-person singular past historic of carier
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English13%
ancient district, Asia Minor
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
A historical region in the southwest corner of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Italian13%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Caria in Italian.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Caria 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.
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the xinhua-italian-manual register; 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)
Caria is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, Caria (a historical region in the southwest corner of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, to decay (about teeth)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, CARIÁ, pers. 3 cariază, vb. I. Refl. (Despre dinți) A face carii, a se strica. [Pr.: -ri-a].
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)
- Filippo Cariab. 1925ITItalian politician (1925-2015)
- Rafael Cariab. 1941ITItalian poet (1941-2008)
- Ànghelu Cariab. 1947ITItalian politician (1947–1996)
- Gino Cariab. 1955ITItalian musician
- Enrico Cariab. 1957ITItalian actor, film director, screenwriter, writer and journalist (born 1957)
- Roberto Cariab. 1974ITItalian priest and theologian (1974-)
- Francesco Cariab. 1988ITItalian jockey
- Matt Cariab. 1988CACanadian ice hockey player
- Marco CariaITItalian opera singer
- Cíntia Cariaresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-7225-745X
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.5K | #6,243 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 117 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 100 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 66 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 57 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 35 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 29 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 9 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Caria mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of carier Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Caria?
- A machine transcription gives /kɐɾiɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Caria have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Caria in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caria.
- How common is the name Caria?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,527 people named Caria, about 1 in 139 thousand residents.
- How common is Caria compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Caria is the 661st most common surname of 45,564 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Caria?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cariaThe 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, “Caria” — the 661st most common surname in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.