Carrera

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: race

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kareɾa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Carrera is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ecuador than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 67th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 723(measured from records)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.5K
  • PEPeru≈1 in 2.2K

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.

Ecuador (measured from records)

23,384 people, 2024

Sources
349 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 723 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

race

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Carrera is read(measured from records)

Carrera is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish77%

    race

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English12%

    Barbara, actress

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Carrera 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 Carrera is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EC Ecuador#14123,3841 in 72323KCarrera78
ES Spain#27417,4601 in 2.9K17KCarrera177
US United States—16,5331 in 20K17KCarrera349
PE Peru#343≈15,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K—Carrera89
AR Argentina#46111,2151 in 4.1K11KCarrera98
GT Guatemala#67≈11,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Carrera54
UY Uruguay—1,9831 in 1.7K2K—43

23,384 people counted by INEC — civil registry names, 2024. 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Carrera is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Carréra, Çarrera, Carrerá

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Carrerá, Carréra

  • Swedish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Peru, Denmark

    Languages: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian

    Also written Carréra

  • Russian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Spain, Russia, Peru

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Каррера, Karrera, Carréra

63 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Carrera is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, third-person singular simple future of carrer

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Aragonese, street

    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)

1400160018002000Pietro Carrera, b. 1573José Rafael Carrera Turcios, b. 1815Barbara Carrera, b. 1945Carlos Carrera, b. 1962Massimo Carrera, b. 1964Juan Fernando Fonseca, b. 1979Mercedes Carrera, b. 1982Carmen Carrera, b. 1985Diego García, b. 1996Javier Hernández Carrera, b. 1998

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)

FormalEstimado/a Carrera,Dear Carrera, (English)
InformalEstimado/a Carrera,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 43 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Carrera
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202423K#184
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—23K—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—17K#304
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—17K#304
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201017K#2,203
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202016K#2,186
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200012K#2,805
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—11K—
UY UruguayINE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public)—2K—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1995422—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)1998379—
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)2001366—

Reference works 5

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Carrera mean, and where does it come from?
race Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Carrera?
A machine transcription gives /kareɾa/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Carrera have the most bearers?
In Ecuador, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Carrera, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled carrera.
Where is Carrera most common?
Carrera is densest in Ecuador, where the national register counts about 1 in 723 people carrying it.
How common is the name Carrera?
In Ecuador, the national register counted 23,384 people named Carrera in 2024, about 1 in 723 residents.
How common is Carrera compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Carrera is the 141st most common surname of 34,511 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Carrera” — the 141st most common surname in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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