Cäro
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cäro is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.
- CLChile≈1 in 1K(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.1K
- ARArgentina1 in 2.1K
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.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 327 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈46,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Caro in AR Argentina, CL Chile, CO Colombia and 3 more.
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)
Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish.
Sources 9
- A dictionary of surnames
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cäro 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #172 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 20 | Caro | 143 |
| AR Argentina | #289 | 21,804 | 1 in 2.1K | 22K | Caro | 95 |
| ES Spain | #216 | 21,040 | 1 in 2.4K | 21K | Caro | 173 |
| CL Chile | #165 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 1 | Caro | 123 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Caro | 52 |
| PE Peru | #595 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Caro | 82 |
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); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); the co-datosgov-candidates register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Cäro mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Latin cārus, cognate with French cher. From the same Latin root as the English verbs caress and cherish. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 7 other sources.
- Is Cäro a male or female name?
- Cäro is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Cäro have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 46 thousand people named Cäro in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled caro.
- How common is the name Cäro?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 21,804 people named Cäro, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Cäro compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Cäro is the 172nd most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/c%C3%A4roThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Cäro” — the 172nd most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.