Caruso
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do siciliano carusu, rapaz assalariado em trabalhos agrícolas ou minas de enxofre
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɝˈusoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Caruso is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.2Kas Cooper
- CHSwitzerland1 in 6.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Caruso itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 446 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
280,791 named Cooper, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do siciliano carusu, rapaz assalariado em trabalhos agrícolas ou minas de enxofre
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Caruso is read(measured from records)
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 namePronouncing 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 nameDicionário 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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Caruso 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 280,791as Cooper | 1 in 1.2K | 281K | Caruso | 446 |
| CN China | — | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Caruso | 6 |
| IT Italy | #831 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 1 | Caruso | 104 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5,766 | 1 in 7.9K | 5.8K | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 4,100 | 1 in 52K | 4.1K | J.r. | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,292 | 1 in 6.5K | 1.3K | Caruso | 37 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 446 | 1 in 7.6K | 446 | — | 1 |
| JM Jamaica | #395 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Caruso | 1 |
280,791 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling cooper. 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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
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 wordHrvatski 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Enrico Carusob. 1873ITItalian opera singer (1873–1921)
- Anthony Carusob. 1916USfilm, television actor (1916-2003)
- Pino Carusob. 1934ITItalian actor (1934–2019)
- Eugenia Carusob. 1953ITitalian actress
- David Carusob. 1956USAmerican actor
- D.J. Carusob. 1965USAmerican film and television director
- Oliver Carusob. 1974DEGerman weightlifter
- Damiano Carusob. 1987ITItalian road racing cyclist
- Alex Carusob. 1994USAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 41 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 20K | #1,758 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 20K | #1,621 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 19K | #1,807 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 5.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 4.1K | #2,638 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.3K | #848 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 446 | — |
| IT Italy | Dizionario dei Cognomi Italiani (De Felice, 1978) | — | — | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- 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)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Caruso?
- A machine transcription gives /kɝˈusoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Caruso mean?
- Recorded meaning: do siciliano carusu, rapaz assalariado em trabalhos agrícolas ou minas de enxofre
- In which country does Caruso have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 281 thousand people named Cooper, more than in any other country we hold.
- 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.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carusoThe 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, “Caruso” — the 395th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.