Carranza

loc · Latin script

Meaning: Venustiano, politician, Mexico

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

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

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 478(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 526
  • PEPeru≈1 in 925

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.

Peru (inferred from the name graph)

≈35,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
369 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 478 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

CarranzaLatin(measured from records)
КаррансаCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Carranza- in US United States.

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)

Venustiano, politician, Mexico

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carranza 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 Carranza is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru≈35,000 est.≈1 in 925—Carranza117
US United States28,5811 in 12K29KCarranza-369
AR Argentina21,5531 in 2.1K22K—101
EC Ecuador15,9791 in 1.1K16K—47
SV El Salvador≈12,000 est.≈1 in 52613K—56
CR Costa Rica10,6691 in 47811K—85
GT Guatemala≈9,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K—Carranza43

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INEC — civil registry names; El Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

Carranza is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Cärränzä, Čarranża, Carranzä, Carranzá, Cärranzä

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written CáRránzá, Cärränzä

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Cårrånzå, Cärränzä, Çårrånzå

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Peru, Spain

    Also written C̶a̶r̶r̶a̶n̶z̶a̶

57 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1400160018002000Bartolomé Carranza, b. 1503Bruno Carranza, b. 1822Adolfo Carranza, b. 1857José Venustiano Carranza Garza, b. 1859Carlos Carranza, b. 1929Jovita Carranza, b. 1949Maite Carranza, b. 1958José Luis Carranza, b. 1964Alex Bowen, b. 1967Julián Carranza, b. 2000

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 33 sources across 21 countries.

Official registers attesting Carranza
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201029K#1,235
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202028K#1,244
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—22K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200019K#1,697
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202416K#272
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—16K—
SV El SalvadorEl Salvador top-100 surnames (surnam.es / RNPN-derived)—13K#96
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—11K#153
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995354—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2008328—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2006305—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2007303—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

What does the name Carranza mean, and where does it come from?
Venustiano, politician, Mexico Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Carranza have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Carranza in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carranza.
Where is Carranza most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Carranza is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 478 people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Carranza?
In the United States, the national register counted 28,581 people named Carranza in 2010, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.

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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, “Carranza”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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