Čargo

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Čargo is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 28K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 337K
  • BRBrazil1 in 513K

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 Čargo 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.

United States (measured from records)

988 people, 2010

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
12 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
ČargoLatin(measured from records)
КаргоCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Cargo 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)
Derivation of Čargo: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Čargo
  1. Spanishcargo“load“load, burden”(measured from records)
  2. Spanish rootcargar“to load”(measured from records)
  3. Late Latincarricō(measured from records)

From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga.

Cited for this meaning 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Čargo 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.

Where Čargo is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States9881 in 337K988—6
BR Brazil4131 in 513K413——
SI Slovenia751 in 28K75—5
DK Denmark60as Kargo1 in 98K60——
CZ Czechia121 in 892K12——
HR Croatia≈6 est.≈1 in 732K—Cargo12

988 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Čargo is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Czech name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Cargo

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Cargo

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Čargo
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—75#5,607
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—12#71,957

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Čargo mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish cargo (“load, burden”), from cargar (“to load”), from Late Latin carricō. Doublet of charge and carga. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and A Frequency Dictionary of Portuguese and 1 other source.
In which country does Čargo have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 988 people named Čargo, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Čargo most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Čargo is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Čargo?
In the United States, the national register counted 988 people named Čargo in 2010, about 1 in 337 thousand 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.

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, “Čargo”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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