Carrete
surname · Latin script
Meaning: bobbin (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaˈre.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) Spanish · from Wiktionary
Carrete is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Mexico than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 82K(measured from records)
- MXMexico≈1 in 120K
- UYUruguay1 in 136K
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.
- Mexico (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 64K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Carrete
- Spanish:/kaˈre.t̪e/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)bobbin
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Carrete is found
(measured from records)Carrete 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MX Mexico | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 116K | 17 | Carrete | 69 |
| ES Spain | 613 | 1 in 82K | 613 | Carrete | 65 |
| US United States | 299 | 1 in 1.1M | 317 | Carrete | 96 |
| AR Argentina | 156 | 1 in 292K | 156 | Carrete | 30 |
| BR Brazil | 120 | 1 in 1.8M | 120 | Carrete | 33 |
| UY Uruguay | 25 | 1 in 136K | 25 | Carrete | 5 |
| MT Malta | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Carrete | 1 |
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: RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Carrete 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 Galician, inflection of carretar:
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)- Luis Zamora Carreteb. 1848ESSpanish journalist (1848-1918)
- Juan Carrete Parrondob. 1944ESSpanish historian
- Martina Carreteresearcher
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Carrete mean, and where does it come from?
- bobbin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Carrete?
- In the etymology graph, Carro and Carreta are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Carrete?
- In Spanish /kaˈre.t̪e/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Carrete?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Carrete in Mexico, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrete. After it come Spain, United States, Argentina and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Carrete?
- In Spain, the national register counted 613 people named Carrete, about 1 in 82 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Carrete?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carreteThe 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, “Carrete” — ranked 4729th in Mexico (RENAPO). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.