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The CARA surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 869 26419 0 3
United States (1880 census) 101 31174 0 2
Change since 1880 +768 +4755 +N/A +1
Other Countries
Australia 38 31945 0 2
United Kingdom 75 25030 0 2
Top States for CARA by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
California 185 20358 0.001 5
New York 121 24121 0.001 6
Florida 95 26712 0.001 6
Pennsylvania 91 24465 0.001 7
New Jersey 56 27716 0.001 7
Top States for CARA by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Hawaii 13 12714 0.001 11
Delaware 7 23796 0.001 9
Massachusetts 52 22329 0.001 8
Pennsylvania 91 24465 0.001 7
New Jersey 56 27716 0.001 7

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called CARA live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called CARA represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called CARA in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a CARA by picking someone at random in Hawaii than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of CARA

Sorry, we don't have any origin and classification information for the CARA surname.

Ethnic distribution of CARA in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 542 62.37
White (Hispanic) 171 19.68
Black/African American 74 8.52
Asian/Pacific 68 7.83
Mixed Race Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the CARA surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

CARA is a genuine surname, but it's an uncommon one. Did you possibly mean one of these instead?

Meaning of CARA in historical publications

Sorry, we don't have any information on the meaning of CARA.

Similar names to CARA

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARA.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for CARA

The following words are slight variants of CARA that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.