Caruso

Locally spelled J.r. in BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

• Spanish:/karuso/○(machine-generated) model-generated
• Italian:/kaˈru.so/●(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Caruso 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.

• English63%

  Enrico, Italian tenor

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• Spanish14%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Caruso in Spanish.

• Italian6.9%

  do siciliano carusu, rapaz assalariado em trabalhos agrícolas ou minas de enxofre

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Caruso is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Argentina, Italy, United States, Brazil

  Languages: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese

  Also written Cärüsö, Cârusõ

• Russian surname17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Italy, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Карузо, Карусо, Karuzo, Каруза, Karuso

51 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.

Caruso 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 Croatian, talijanski operni pjevač, najslavniji tenor svojega doba

  as a word·Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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.

• Enrico Carusob. 1873ITItalian opera singer (1873–1921)
• David Carusob. 1956USAmerican actor
• Sophia Anne Carusob. 2001USAmerican actress

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).

41 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Caruso?

It depends on the language: in Spanish /karuso/; in Italian /kaˈru.so/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

What does the name Caruso mean?

Recorded meaning: do siciliano carusu, rapaz assalariado em trabalhos agrícolas ou minas de enxofre

Which countries have the most people with the surname Caruso?

In the United States, the national register counted about 281 thousand people named Cooper, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Italy, Argentina, Brazil and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.

How common is the name Caruso?

In Argentina, the national register counted 5,766 people named Caruso, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.

How common is Caruso compared with other names?

In Jamaica, Caruso is the 395th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.