The Carrere surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 388 people carried this name — #53,316 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 769,200 people counted. That is up 6% from 366 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 4,380 people named Carrere.
62 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 84 départements, most often Hautes-Pyrénées.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 710 people named Carrere 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 mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
29 people named Carrere live in Switzerland.
They live in 4 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
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 print
Carrere in American newspapers,
1890–1923.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Carrere.
- Carreira 810 · U.S. census
- Carrel 985 · U.S. census
- Carreno 7,146 · U.S. census
- Carrer 114 · U.S. census
- Carrera 16,533 · U.S. census
- Carreras 2,639 · U.S. census
- Carretero 909 · U.S. census
- Carretta 399 · U.S. census
- Carrette 104 · U.S. census
- Carrey 192 · U.S. census
- Carrie 797 · U.S. census
- Carrier 13,377 · U.S. census
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