Caron

At the 2020 census, 11,919 Americans bore the surname Caron — 2,954th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 25,100.

By the numbers

People: 11,919
Rank: 2,954th
How common: 1 in 25,100
Per 100,000: 4.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Caron

Leslie Caron (born 1931)French and American actress and dancer
Kiki Caron (born 1948)French swimmer
Antoine Caron (1521–1599)French painter
Maxence Caron (born 1976)French writer and philosopher
Stéphan Caron (born 1966)French swimmer

People named Caron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Caron

Also a first name

Caron has been given to 4,212 American babies as a first name since 1935, peaking in 1956. See it as a given name.

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.