Karakas
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Caracas (the capital of Venezuela)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kaɾakas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karakas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 12K
- DEGermany≈1 in 48K
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 Karakas 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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈77,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, 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 Karakaş in TR Türkiye, BG Bulgaria, CY Cyprus and 1 more and Karakaš in HR Croatia.
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)
Caracas (the capital of Venezuela)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karakas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #123 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Karakaş | 91 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Karakaş | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Karakaş | 11 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Karakas | 85 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,476as Caracas | 1 in 143K | 1.5K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 343 | 1 in 12K | 343 | Karakaš | 28 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Karakas | 27 |
| CY Cyprus | #360 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Karakaş | 7 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Karakas 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.
Plg. brus. Корак, Каракоу, rus., ukr. Карака (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 183), rus. Карак (САМС II 762)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Lithuanian, Plg. brus. Kopax, Kapakoj, rus., ukr, Kapaxa (M. bupsina, 1969, c. 183), rus. Kapak (CAMC II 762).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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)
- Nikolai Ivanovich Karakaschb. 1862UAnot in their usual nameRussian paleontologist (1862-1916)
- Mike Karakasb. 1911USAmerican ice hockey goaltender (1911–1992)
- Éva Karakasb. 1922HUHungarian chess women grandmaster
- László Karakasb. 1923HUHungarian communist politician (1923-1989)
- József Karakasb. 1944HUHungarian association football player
- András Karakasb. 1948HUHungarian illustrator (1948-2008)
- János Karakasb. 1949HUHungarian politician (1949-2020)
- Hedvig Karakasb. 1990HUHungarian judoka
- Amanda I. KarakasAUastronomer
- Anikó KarakasHUmayor of Vésztő (2019–)
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 23 sources across 13 countries.
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Karakas mean, and where does it come from?
- Caracas (the capital of Venezuela) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Karakas?
- A machine transcription gives /kaɾakas/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Karakas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 77 thousand people named Karakas in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karakaş.
- How common is the name Karakas?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 343 people named Karakas in 2021, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
- How common is Karakas compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Karakas is the 123rd most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/karakasThe 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, “Karakas” — the 123rd most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.