Karre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: probably a variant of Karremann, an occupational name for a carter (see Karman 1)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Karre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 282K
- DKDenmark1 in 587K
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 282K (inferred from the name graph)
1,002 people
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
probably a variant of Karremann, an occupational name for a carter (see Karman 1). Middle Low German kar(re) is an early loanword from Latin carrus ‘cart’, ‘wagon’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karre 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 1,002 | 1 in 1.3M | 1K | Karre | 58 |
| US United States | 236 | 1 in 1.4M | 278 | Karre | 59 |
| DE Germany | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 841K | listed | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Karre | 8 |
| BE Belgium | 18 | 1 in 651K | 18 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 15 | 1 in 282K | 19 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 10 | 1 in 587K | 10 | — | — |
1,002 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the dfa-band-5 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)
Karre is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, occupational name for a cart or wagon driver.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In hrx, car; automobile
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Afrikaans, plural of kar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, cart, barrow
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gmh, cart
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 1.7K | #2,332 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1K | #5,465 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 278 | #74,891 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 241 | #74,675 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 236 | #80,419 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 19 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 18 | #50,510 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15 | #26,590 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 10 | #40,637 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #48,334 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Where does the name Karre come from?
- probably a variant of Karremann, an occupational name for a carter (see Karman 1). Middle Low German kar(re) is an early loanword from Latin carrus ‘cart’, ‘wagon’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Karre mean?
- Recorded meaning: probably a variant of Karremann, an occupational name for a carter (see Karman 1).
- In which country does Karre have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Karre, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled karre.
- Where is Karre most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Karre is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 282 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Karre?
- In India, the national register counted 1,002 people named Karre, about 1 in 1.3 million 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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Karre”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.