Carrera

At the 2020 census, 16,224 Americans bore the surname Carrera — 2,186th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 18,400.

By the numbers

People: 16,224
Rank: 2,186th
How common: 1 in 18,400
Per 100,000: 5.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Spanish

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

Who bears the name

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

Hispanic or Latino 88.1%
White, not Hispanic 8.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Carrera

Asia Carrera (born 1973)American pornographic actress
Barbara Carrera (born 1945)Nicaraguan-American model and actress
Rafael Carrera (1815–1865)President of Guatemala
Jose Miguel Carrera (1785–1821)Chilean general
Massimo Carrera (born 1964)Italian footballer and manager
Pietro Carrera (1573–1647)Italian chess player
Martín Carrera (1806–1871)President of Mexico
Diego García Carrera (born 1996)Spanish race walker

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

Surnames like Carrera

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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.