as a Last Name
- 21,028
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Caruso
Meaning & Origins
Italian: nickname from caruso ‘close-cropped’ (Latin cariosus ‘decayed’, also ‘smooth’, ‘bald’). This word was also used in the more general sense ‘boy’, ‘lad’, since in the Middle Ages young men of fashion sometimes wore their hair much shorter than was the prevailing style. In the Girgenti area of Sicily the term was a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the sulfur pits, since such workers were required to wear their hair short.
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Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 21,028
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Jersey
- has the most people named Caruso per capita
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