Cario
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Carian
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾjo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Cario is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
- FRFrance≈1 in 79K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Carian
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cario 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Cario | 15 |
| FR France | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 79K | 129 | — | — |
| IT Italy | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 121K | listed | — | 8 |
| VE Venezuela | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Cario | 17 |
| US United States | 229 | 1 in 1.5M | 308 | Cario | 54 |
| GT Guatemala | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Cario | 5 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); the xinhua-italian-manual register. 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)
Cario 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, a male given name, character in the play Miles Gloriosus of Plautus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, first-person singular present indicative of cariare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, to carry
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Adriano Cariob. 1972ITItalian politician
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 23 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 308 | #68,789 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 253 | #71,808 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 229 | #82,317 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 155 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 152 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 138 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 129 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 124 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 121 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 105 | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- 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 Cario mean, and where does it come from?
- Carian Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Cario?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾjo/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Cario have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Cario in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cario.
- How common is the name Cario?
- In the United States, the national register counted 229 people named Cario in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Cario?
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/carioThe 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, “Cario”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.