Cartel
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2000
/kɑɹˈtɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Cartel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 110K(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 200K
- USUnited States≈1 in 3.4Mfew records
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Cartel
- English:/kɑɹˈtɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- French:/kaʁ.tɛl/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Spanish:/kaɾtel/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Cartel is read
(measured from records)Cartel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English43%
A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Cartel in French.
- Spanish20%
poster, placard, bill, banner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Cartel is found
(measured from records)Cartel 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Cartel | 29 |
| FR France | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 202K | 29 | — | 2 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 875K | — | Cartel | 7 |
| US United States | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | 101 | Cartel | 83 |
| GH Ghana | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 868K | — | Cartel | 10 |
| BR Brazil | 20 | 1 in 11M | 20 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 900K | — | Cartel | 3 |
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 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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)Cartel 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 Dutch, obsolete form of kartel (“cartel”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, cartel (a group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cartel mean, and where does it come from?
- A group of businesses or nations that collude to limit competition within an industry or market. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Cartel?
- In the etymology graph, Card and Carta are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Cartel?
- It depends on the language: in English /kɑɹˈtɛl/ (Wiktionary); in French /kaʁ.tɛl/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /kaɾtel/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Cartel?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 20 people named Cartel, about 1 in 11 million residents.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Cartel?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Cartel in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cartel. After it come France, Nigeria, United States and Ghana; the country table on this page ranks them.
What do you want to know about Cartel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/cartelThe 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, “Cartel”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.