Cariman

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries

Cariman is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country.

  • CLChile≈1 in 27K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina1 in 83K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 190Kfew records

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈730 people, est.

Record sources
33 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, 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 the surname Cariman is found

(measured from records)

Cariman 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.

Where Cariman is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile#804≈730 est.≈1 in 27K—Cariman33
PH Philippines—≈610 est.≈1 in 189K—Cariman5
AR Argentina—5471 in 83K547Cariman31
BR Brazil—1451 in 1.5M145Cariman22
US United States—≈15 est.≈1 in 23M—Cariman17
VE Venezuela—≈8 est.≈1 in 3.7M—Cariman6

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); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Cariman is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Mali, Argentina

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Carimán

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt

    Also written Çárimãn

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Italy

    Also written Căriman

33 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Which countries have the most people with the surname Cariman?
Mondonomo estimates about 725 people named Cariman in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cariman. After it come Philippines, Argentina, Brazil and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Cariman?
In Argentina, the national register counted 547 people named Cariman, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
How common is Cariman compared with other names?
In Chile, Cariman is the 804th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Cariman” — the 804th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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