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    The surname Caras

    A surname, carried by 672 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex C620

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    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caras is more common than 79.1% of them.

    Origin

    * 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.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 672 people named Caras in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. That is down 6.3% since 2000, when the Census counted 717.

    #33,856
    rank among US surnames
    672
    people in 2010
    0.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    -6.3%
    change since 2000 (was #30,682)

    Who is named Caras

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    79% of people named Caras identified as white (not Hispanic), 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander and 7.6% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 79%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 11%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 7.6%
    • Two or more races 1.5%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Native American are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Caras

    Caras has the Soundex code C620, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C620.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Caras come from?
    * 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),…
    How common is the surname Caras?
    672 people in the United States had the surname Caras in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 459,443 Americans. It ranked 33,856th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Caras?
    In the 2010 Census, 79% of people named Caras identified as white (not Hispanic), and 11% as Asian and Pacific Islander.
    Is the surname Caras getting more or less common?
    Less common. 717 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 672 in 2010, down 6.3%.