Carra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: third-person singular past historic of carrer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 36K(measured from records)
- ITItaly≈1 in 47K
- BRBrazil1 in 168K
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
- 99 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
third-person singular past historic of carrer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Carra | 86 |
| BR Brazil | 1,258 | 1 in 168K | 1.3K | Carra | 73 |
| AR Argentina | 1,255 | 1 in 36K | 1.3K | Carra | 50 |
| US United States | 812 | 1 in 410K | 903 | Carra | 99 |
| FR France | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 94 | Carra | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 152K | 1 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 145 | 1 in 23K | 145 | Carra | 12 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the xinhua-italian-manual register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Carra 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 Latin, nominative/accusative/vocative plural of carrum
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, only used in carra mhilis
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)
- Jean-Louis Carrab. 1742FRFrench journalist and politician
- Vicente Jimeno y Carrab. 1796ESSpanish painter
- Enzo Carrab. 1943ITItalian journalist and politician
- Pat Carrab. 1954ITItalian comics artist
- Luca Carrab. 1960ITItalian journalist
- Marco Carrab. 1965ITItalian politician
- Marco Carrab. 1980ITItalian basketball player (born 1980)
- Juan Marcarieb. 1985ARnot in their usual nameArgentinian association football player
- Alexis Carrab. 2000USAmerican actress
- Serena CarraITresearcher
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 26 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #7,519 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 835 | #27,235 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 812 | #29,171 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 764 | #32,304 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 145 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 116 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 99 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 96 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 94 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 84 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 76 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Carra mean, and where does it come from?
- third-person singular past historic of carrer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carra?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Carra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.3 thousand people named Carra in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carra.
- Where is Carra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carra is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Italy holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Carra?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 1,258 people named Carra, about 1 in 168 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/carraThe 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, “Carra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.