Given name & surname
Caruso
Caruso is a surname from Italian. It is used in English and Italian.
Original ItalianCarusillo
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1923. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Caruso through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #12,363 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 12,363 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 19,441 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Caruso’s family of names
In Italian usage, Caruso as a surname has a diminutive in CARUSILLO. In English usage, Caruso as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Sicilian form Carusu. In English usage, Caruso as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Кару́зо.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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