The CARO surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	5,052	6236	0.002	19
United States (1880 census)	246	16566	0	5
Change since 1880	+4806	+10330	+N/A	+14
Other Countries
Australia	74	18506	0	5
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for CARO by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	1,240	1859	0.004	37
Florida	699	2093	0.004	44
Texas	546	3009	0.003	26
New York	462	2968	0.002	24
New Jersey	222	3086	0.003	26
Top States for CARO by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New Mexico	103	1213	0.006	57
Florida	699	2093	0.004	44
Nevada	83	2032	0.004	42
California	1,240	1859	0.004	37
Arizona	177	2462	0.003	34

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of CARO

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Spain

Language of origin: Spanish

Ethnic origin: Iberian

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the CARO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the CARO surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of CARO in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Asian/Pacific	128	2.53
Black/African American	85	1.68
Mixed Race	43	0.85
Native American/Alaskan	23	0.46
White (Hispanic)	3,681	72.86
White (Caucasian)	1,092	21.62

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

Similar names to CARO

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as CARO.

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.