Caruana
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Caruana is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Australia than in any other country. In Malta it is the 26th most common surname.
- MTMalta≈1 in 2.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 15K
- ITItaly≈1 in 34Kfew records
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.
- Australia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 the surname Caruana is found
(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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Caruana | 134 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Caruana | 24 |
| US United States | — | 1,286 | 1 in 259K | 1.3K | Caruana | 209 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 124K | — | Caruana | 19 |
| FR France | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 85K | 85 | — | 2 |
| MT Malta | #26 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Caruana | 88 |
| BE Belgium | — | 190 | 1 in 62K | 235 | Caruana | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 79K | listed | — | 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 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)- Jaime Caruanab. 1952ESSpanish economist and engineer
- Daphne Caruana Galiziab. 1964MTMaltese journalist and blogger (1964-2017)
- 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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Caruana?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Caruana in Australia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caruana. After it come Italy, United States, Philippines and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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Query this name via API
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 2026-10-13.