Cartes

surname · Latin script

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

/kartɛs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Cartes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chile than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Italian cazzo (“penis”), compare French catze.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 2.3K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 20K
  • ARArgentina1 in 38K

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.

Chile (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,100 people, est.

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Chile, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Italian cazzo (“penis”), compare French catze

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Cartes 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 Cartes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CL Chile#286≈8,100 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Cartes79
AR Argentina—1,2021 in 38K1.2KCartes43
ES Spain—5291 in 95K529Cartes63
PY Paraguay#635≈370 est.≈1 in 20K—Cartes32
BR Brazil—2281 in 929K228Cartes34
UY Uruguay—221 in 154K22—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: 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain

    Also written Cartés

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cártes

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Cartés

  • Swedish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Cartés

28 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Cartes is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In cdo, eaprah m tppeene jesleeig Swe! a all living creatures, all people, toward whom all hearts turn. to plant or sow, (cai). pills for the procreative power. to vaceinate, (small-pox), (céuto sow or cultivate land. ‘you reap what you sows

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In Asturian, plural of carta

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A penis.

    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)

19401960198020002020Horacio Cartes, b. 1956Marc Cartes i Ivern, b. 1970Roberto Cartes, b. 1972Marlene Pérez, b. 1973Pablo Godoy, b. 1984Francisco Pizarro, b. 1989Boris Cartes, b. 1991Felipe Lee-Chong, b. 1997Leia, b. 2001

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)

FormalEstimado/a Cartes,Dear Cartes, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Cartes,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Cartes
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—1.2K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—529#7,634
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—529#7,627
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—228#32,990
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—22—

Reference works 1

  • 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 Cartes mean, and where does it come from?
From Italian cazzo (“penis”), compare French catze Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Cartes?
A machine transcription gives /kartɛs/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Cartes have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Cartes in Chile, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cartes.
How common is the name Cartes?
In Argentina, the national register counted 1,202 people named Cartes, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
How common is Cartes compared with other names?
In Chile, Cartes is the 286th most common surname of 94,777 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Cartes” — the 286th most common surname in Chile. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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