# Caras (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/caras/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 672 |
| US rank (2010) | 33,856 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 459,443 people |
| Change since 2000 | -6.3% (717 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Greek surname, variant of Karas. Compare also Carras. * Also as a Greek surname, from the personal name Kyriakos, see also Kyriacou. * As a Romanian surname, from caras (“crucian carp”), see Karas. * As a Jewish surname of Slavic (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene), variant of Karas. * As a Polish (Karaś), Hungarian (Kárász) and Jewish surname, from the "carp" sense above.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Caras in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 79% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 7.6% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 11% |
| Two or more races | 1.5% |

## Similar surnames

Caruso, Coreas, Carias, Caris, Carris, Carrasco, Cruz, Craig, Cross, Church, Crews, Crouch.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.