as a Last Name
- 789
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Caras
Meaning & Origins
Greek: 1. nickname for a black-haired or gloomy individual, from karas ‘black’, ‘dark’ (and by extension ‘moody’), from Turkish kara ‘black’. It is also found in many compound surnames such as Karageorgiou ‘black George’ (patronymic). 2. occupational name for a carter, Greek karas (from karo ‘cart’ + the occupational suffix -as).
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- Hundreds
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 789
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Delaware
- has the most people named Caras per capita
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