# Caras

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. A surname.

## Etymology
* As a Greek surname, variant of Karas. Compare also Carras.
* Also as a Greek surname, from the personal name Kyriakos, see also Kyriacou.
* As a Romanian surname, from caras (“crucian carp”), see Karas.
* As a Jewish surname of Slavic (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene), variant of Karas.
* As a Polish (Karaś), Hungarian (Kárász) and Jewish surname, from the "carp" sense above.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/caras