Karas

4,510 people in the United States were counted with the surname Karas in the 2020 census, making it the 7,137th most common in the country. That is about one person in 66,300.

By the numbers

People: 4,510
Rank: 7,137th
How common: 1 in 66,300
Per 100,000: 1.5

Where the name comes from

As a sla and Jewish surname (Polish Karaś, Ukrainian, be, Czech, Slovak, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, hsb): all from the noun karaś (“crucian carp”). Compare Caras, Karasch, Karras.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 93.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Karas

Anton Karas (1906–1985)Austrian musician, composer
Othmar Karas (born 1957)Austrian politician serving as First Vice-President of the European Parliament
Jan Karaś (born 1959)Polish footballer
Władysław Karaś (1893–1942)Polish sport shooter
Tomáš Karas (born 1975)Czech rower

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

Surnames like Karas

Also a first name

Karas has been given to 652 American babies as a first name since 2008, peaking in 2014. 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.