Carre
surname · Latin script
Meaning: stature
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kaʁ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Carre is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium1 in 25K
- ESSpain1 in 91K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, 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 Carré in ES Spain.
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)
stature
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Carre 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #134 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 2.4K | Carre | 292 |
| BR Brazil | — | 589 | 1 in 359K | 589 | — | — |
| US United States | — | 548 | 1 in 607K | 615 | Carre | 123 |
| ES Spain | — | 548 | 1 in 91K | 548 | Carré | 16 |
| BE Belgium | — | 475 | 1 in 25K | 475 | Carre | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Carre | 61 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 79 | 1 in 106K | 79 | Carre | 17 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Carre 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 French, OF carre square (L quadratus, past part, of quadrare to form a square, from quadr- four). Vars.: Carrey, Carrez; Le Carre. Cogn.: Sp.: Cuadrado.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
In Latin, vocative singular of carrus
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ang, dative singular of carr
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In fro, cart (wheeled vehicle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In enm, cart, wagon
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert Riddell-Carreb. 1782British Royal Navy officer (1782-1860)
- Antoine Carreb. 1787FRFrench explorer
- Géraldine Carréb. 1969FRFrench journalist, television presenter and radio host (1969–2024)
- Martial Georges Ludovic CarreMUMauritian handball official
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 24 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 3.6K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 3.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 3.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 3.1K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1921 | 2.8K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 2.7K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1931 | 2.5K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.4K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 2.2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 2K | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1891 | 1.6K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 615 | #38,716 |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Carre mean, and where does it come from?
- stature Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Carre?
- A machine transcription gives /kaʁ/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Carre have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Carre in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carre.
- How common is the name Carre?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 589 people named Carre, about 1 in 359 thousand residents.
- How common is Carre compared with other names?
- In France, Carre is the 134th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Carre?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/carreThe 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, “Carre” — the 134th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.