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    The surname Caraway

    An English occupational surname, carried by 6,517 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex C600

    Caraway: #5,340 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Caraway #5,340, 6,517 people Caraway: #5,340 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Caraway #5,340, 6,517 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Caraway is more common than 96.7% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From the Middle English occupational surname, probably for a spice merchant, related to caraway.

    Caraway is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 6,517 people named Caraway in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 47,375 Americans. That is up 4.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 6,268.

    #5,340
    rank among US surnames
    6,517
    people in 2010
    2.2
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4%
    change since 2000 (was #5,137)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #5,337Sorto6,52347,332
    #5,338Buell6,52247,339
    #5,339Bias6,51847,368
    #5,340Emanuel6,51747,375

    Who is named Caraway

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

    77% of people named Caraway identified as white (not Hispanic), 17% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 77%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 17%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
    • Two or more races 2.1%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.9%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Caraway

    Caraway has the Soundex code C600, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code C600.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Caraway come from?
    From the Middle English occupational surname, probably for a spice merchant, related to caraway.
    How common is the surname Caraway?
    6,517 people in the United States had the surname Caraway in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 47,375 Americans. It ranked 5,340th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Caraway?
    In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Caraway identified as white (not Hispanic), and 17% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Caraway?
    Caraway is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Caraway getting more or less common?
    More common. 6,268 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 6,517 in 2010, up 4.0%.