Caraway

Caraway is the 5,521st most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,082 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 49,100.

By the numbers

People: 6,082
Rank: 5,521st
How common: 1 in 49,100
Per 100,000: 2.0

Where the name comes from

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Caraway described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 73.3%
Black, not Hispanic 17.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Surnames like Caraway

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.