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The Carrera surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 16,533 people carried this name — #2,203 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 17,900 people counted. That is up 41% from 11,752 in 2000.

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In Argentina’s national register

At least 11,215 people named Carrera 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 Buenos Aires Province.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Buenos Aires Province 4,902
Córdoba 1,237
City of Buenos Aires 1,018
Mendoza 808
Santa Fe 472
Neuquén 363
Tucumán 343
Río Negro 268

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

In France’s civil register

France’s register of deaths holds 508 people named Carrera.

106 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 40 départements, most often Hérault.

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Where they were born

Born outside France 106
Hérault 51
Pyrénées-Atlantiques 49
Aude 43
Gironde 33
Haute-Garonne 28
Pyrénées-Orientales 27
Bouches-du-Rhône 20
Gers 17

Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.

In Switzerland’s population statistics

261 people named Carrera live in Switzerland.

They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.

Where it concentrates, on the map

Where they live today

Zurich 46
Ticino 46
Bern 25
Vaud 22
Valais 20
Geneva 18
Basel-Landschaft 17
Fribourg 16

Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.

In the Nordic population registers

24 people named Carrera is counted in Sweden.

Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.

Counted, by country

Sweden (2022) 24

Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).

Who carried it

People named Carrera,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Pietro Carrera
    Pietro Carrera 1573–1647 · writer
  • Giuseppe Carrera d. 1630 · painter
  • Maximo Carrera d. 1908
  • Joana Carrera d. 1620
  • Vito Carrera 1578–1623 · painter
  • Andrea Carrera 1590–1677 · artist

Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

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Surnames next to Carrera.

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