Carne

org · Latin script

Meaning, in Portuguese: meat, flesh

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Carne is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 65K(measured from records)
  • GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 94K
  • UYUruguay1 in 154K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

770 people

Sources
197 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 65K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Carné in ES Spain.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

‘person who lives by a cairn’, or ‘person from Carne’, a Cornish place name from Cornish carn ‘cairn’

Sources 1

  • Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carne is read(measured from records)

Carne is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 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.

  • Portuguese89%

    meat, flesh

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese

  • English43%

    ‘person who lives by a cairn’, or ‘person from Carne’, a Cornish place name from Cornish carn ‘cairn’

    as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]

  • French11%

    meat (usually of bad quality)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish9.3%

    flesh, the soft part of a body which covers the bones

    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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Carne 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 Carne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain7701 in 65K770Carné46
GB United Kingdom≈700 est.≈1 in 94Klisted—140
US United States5601 in 594K634—197
FR France≈390 est.≈1 in 173K26—3
BR Brazil1481 in 1.4M148—1
FI Finland341 in 164K34—2
UY Uruguay221 in 154K22——

770 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos), counting the spelling carne. 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Carne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Italy, France, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Italian, French

    Also written Carné, Carnè

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Spain

    Also written Carné, Carnê, Carnè

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Carnè, Carné

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Carné, Çärnę

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Carné

42 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carne is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Romanian, subst. 1. Carnea16, loan, act. < carnila sau < vb. a ctrni. 2. Carnos, St., mold. 3. Cdrnar lu, -iul, Iordache (Sd VII 327), n. agentis. Caroli v. Carle I 1.

    as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc

  • Montaña rocosa

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

175018001850190019502000Joseph Carne, b. 1782John Carne Bidwill, b. 1815Elizabeth Carne, b. 1817Joseph Carne-Ross, b. 1846Carne Rasch, b. 1847James Carne, b. 1906D. S. Carne-Ross, b. 1921Mark Carne, b. 1959Carne Ross, b. 1966Warren Carne, b. 1975

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 21 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Carne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—770#5,572
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—770#5,571
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020634#37,718
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000563#37,266
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010560#39,281
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—148#46,898
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192158—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193137—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191135—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—34#31,279

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

Where does the name Carne come from?
‘person who lives by a cairn’, or ‘person from Carne’, a Cornish place name from Cornish carn ‘cairn’ Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
What does the name Carne mean?
In Portuguese, meat, flesh
In which country does Carne have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 770 people named Carne, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carné.
Where is Carne most common?
Carne is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 65 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Carne?
In Spain, the national register counted 770 people named Carne, about 1 in 65 thousand residents.

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About this data

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Carne”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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