# Carta (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/carta/  
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 | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,028 |
| US rank (2010) | 24,370 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 300,336 people |
| Change since 2000 | +3.4% (994 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

An Italian metonymic occupational name for a notary or administrator from carta (“document”) or a Spanish nickname from carta (“letter”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Carta 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) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 17% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.1% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Carta in Brazil.

## People named Carta

- Mino Carta, Brazilian journalist

## Similar surnames

Card, Carty, Cartee, Carte, Carreto, Cart, Cowart, Carruth, Cartaya, Cerda, Coward, Creed.

## 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.