Carrero
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variante dialetal setentrional de Carraro (Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaˈre.ɾo/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Carrero is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Venezuela than in any other country. Carrero is also written Карреро in Cyrillic.
- VEVenezuela≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 5K
- NINicaragua≈1 in 5.3K
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.
- Venezuela (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Venezuela, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Carrero in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Carrero
- Spanish:/kaˈre.ɾo/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)variante dialetal setentrional de Carraro
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Carrero is found
(measured from records)Carrero 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | #203 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Carrero | 75 |
| CO Colombia | #656 | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 2 | Carrero | 87 |
| ES Spain | #660 | 7,514 | 1 in 6.7K | 7.5K | Carrero | 140 |
| US United States | — | 4,126 | 1 in 81K | 4.1K | Carrero | 267 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Carrero | 50 |
| NI Nicaragua | #345 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Carrero | 18 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Carrero | 43 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 684 | 1 in 5K | 684 | — | 27 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Luis Carrero Blancob. 1904ESSpanish admiral and politician
- Tônia Carrerob. 1922BRBrazilian actress of theater, television and cinema (1922–2018)
- Aimee Carrerob. 1988USAmerican actress
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Carrero?
- In Spanish /kaˈre.ɾo/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Carrero mean?
- Recorded meaning: variante dialetal setentrional de Carraro
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Carrero?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Carrero in Venezuela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrero. After it come Colombia, Spain, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Carrero?
- In Spain, the national register counted 7,514 people named Carrero, about 1 in 6.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Carrero compared with other names?
- In Venezuela, Carrero is the 203rd most common surname of 83,461 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carreroThe 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, “Carrero” — the 203rd most common surname in Venezuela. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.