The Carreon surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 12,941 people carried this name — #2,789 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 22,800 people counted. That is up 40% from 9,218 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Carreon surname

A surname from Spanish, an anglicization of Carreón.

Anglicization of Spanish Carreón

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Carreon» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Argentina’s national register

At least 128 people named Carreon live in Argentina.

RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Santa Fe.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Santa Fe 40
Buenos Aires Province 37
Salta 35
City of Buenos Aires 16

RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Carreon in American newspapers,
1852–1928.

Newspaper page from The Columbus Courier carrying the name Carreon
The Columbus Courier 1919-07-11
Newspaper page from The Lexington Advertiser carrying the name Carreon
The Lexington Advertiser 1928-10-25
Newspaper page from Gazeta De Puerto-rico carrying the name Carreon
Gazeta De Puerto-rico 1852-03-20

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 1,616 pages in all carry the name.

In print

Carreon in Australian newspapers,
1930s–1940s.

95 articles name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Carreon. The most, 78, date from the 1930s.

Articles, by state

New South Wales 1
Queensland 1
South Australia 1
Victoria 1

Trove, National Library of Australia (trove.nla.gov.au) · articles in its digitised newspapers that name a Mr, Mrs or Miss Carreon.

Who carried it

People named Carreon,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Rodolfo Carreon Jr. d. 2018

Wikidata (CC0) · 4 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Carreon,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States373 records

373 records of the Carreon name in the United States
  • U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955 295
  • U.S. Army enlistment records, World War II 46
  • U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001 32
  1. A United States Selective Service registration card, 1942
    Example: U.S. registration card, 1942
    Military record Edwardo Carreon

    Born 1920 in Texas. Enlisted 1940 at El Paso; auto mechanic from El Paso County. U.S. Army veteran of World War II; died 1978, buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain); U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Pablo Carreon

    U.S. Air Force veteran. Born 1936, died 2000; buried at Fort Bliss National Cemetery, Texas.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Aurora Carreon

    Born 1896 in Mexico. Registered as a foreign national in San Francisco, California, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 373 records for Carreon in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain) · U.S. National Archives, WWII Army Enlistment Records (public domain) · U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: U.S. Selective Service registration card, 1942 (public domain); Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain); Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

Nearby in the index

Surnames next to Carreon.

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