Caruana
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kɑɹuˈænə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caruana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Malta it is the 26th most common surname.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 112K
- USUnited States1 in 259K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caruana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 153K | — | Caruana | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Caruana | 134 |
| US United States | — | 1,286 | 1 in 259K | 1.3K | Caruana | 209 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | listed | Caruana | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈980 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Caruana | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 85 | — | 2 |
| MT Malta | #26 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Caruana | 88 |
| BE Belgium | — | 190 | 1 in 62K | 235 | Caruana | 9 |
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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); the xinhua-italian-manual register; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Francesco Saverio Caruanab. 1759MTMaltese bishop (1759-1847)
- Mauro Caruanab. 1867MTMaltese of Archbishop (1867-1943)
- Edward Caruana Dinglib. 1876GBMaltese painter (1876-1950)
- George J. Caruanab. 1882MTMaltese archbishop (1882–1951)
- Charles Caruanab. 1932GBRoman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar; later Bishop Emeritus (1932–2010)
- Jaime Caruanab. 1952ESSpanish economist and engineer
- Peter Caruanab. 1956GBChief Minister of Gibralter (born 1956)
- Daphne Caruana Galiziab. 1964MTMaltese journalist and blogger (1964-2017)
- Jonathan Caruanab. 1986MTMaltese footballer
- Fabiano Caruanab. 1992USItalian-American chess player
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)
Attested in 25 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.3K | #20,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #21,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,800 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 235 | #7,491 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 190 | #8,835 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 133 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 120 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 112 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 85 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 47 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 14 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Caruana?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑɹuˈænə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Caruana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Caruana in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caruana.
- How common is the name Caruana?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,286 people named Caruana in 2010, about 1 in 259 thousand residents.
- How common is Caruana compared with other names?
- In Malta, Caruana is the 26th most common surname of 5,132 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/caruanaThe 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, “Caruana” — the 26th most common surname in Malta. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.