Cavallaro
surname · Latin script
Meaning: do lat. caballarius, cavaleiro; criador/mercador de cavalos
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Cavallaro is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ARArgentina1 in 31K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 95K
- BRBrazil1 in 269K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 31K (inferred from the name graph)
3,493 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
do lat. caballarius, cavaleiro; criador/mercador de cavalos
Sources 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cavallaro 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 | 3,493 | 1 in 95K | 3.5K | Cavallaro | 89 |
| AR Argentina | 1,480 | 1 in 31K | 1.5K | Cavallaro | 55 |
| BR Brazil | 786 | 1 in 269K | 786 | Cavallaro | 63 |
| CH Switzerland | 245 | 1 in 34K | 245 | Cavallaro | 8 |
| ES Spain | 151 | 1 in 331K | 151 | Cavallaro | 21 |
| UY Uruguay | 93 | 1 in 36K | 93 | Cavallaro | 12 |
| BE Belgium | 88 | 1 in 133K | 88 | Cavallaro | 4 |
3,493 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)
Cavallaro is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
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as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, Variante di Cavalli
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Vincenzo Giuseppe Cavallarob. 1886ITItalian physicist (1886-1961)
- Carmen Cavallarob. 1913USAmerican pianist (1913–1989)
- Mario Cavallarob. 1951ITItalian politician
- Cosimo Cavallarob. 1961CACanadian artist
- Dani Cavallarob. 1962British freelance writer
- Nadia Cavallarob. 1969ITItalian archaeologist (born 1969)
- Maria Elena Cavallarob. 1973ITItalian historian
- Michael Cavallarob. 1987AUAustralian footballer
- Juan Ignacio Cavallarob. 1994ARArgentine footballer
- Salvatore Cavallarob. 1995ITItalian boxer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.5K | #9,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.3K | #8,977 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.2K | #9,657 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 786 | #11,428 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 245 | #5,268 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 151 | #20,490 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 151 | #20,385 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 93 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 88 | #17,187 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- What does the name Cavallaro mean?
- Recorded meaning: do lat. caballarius, cavaleiro; criador/mercador de cavalos
- In which country does Cavallaro have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Cavallaro, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled cavallaro.
- Where is Cavallaro most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Cavallaro is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 31 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Cavallaro?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,493 people named Cavallaro in 2010, about 1 in 95 thousand residents.
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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.
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, “Cavallaro”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.