Carret
surname · Latin script
Meaning: alternative form of caret (“yarn”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Carret is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 40K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 434K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 840K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
alternative form of caret (“yarn”)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carret 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 40K | 231 | Carret | 189 |
| BR Brazil | 103 | 1 in 2.1M | 103 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | listed | Carret | 39 |
| ES Spain | 42 | 1 in 1.2M | 42 | Carret | 3 |
| BE Belgium | 27 | 1 in 434K | 27 | Carret | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 10 | 1 in 840K | 10 | — | 4 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Carret is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, diminutive of carro (“cart”)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 283 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 277 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 253 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 231 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 225 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 223 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 219 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 184 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 157 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 154 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 118 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 103 | #61,986 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carret mean, and where does it come from?
- alternative form of caret (“yarn”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Carret have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Carret in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carret.
- How common is the name Carret?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 103 people named Carret, about 1 in 2.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Carret?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carretThe 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, “Carret”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.