Origin and popularity of the name CARRE

Origin

Carre : 1: French (Carré): from Old French carré ‘square’ applied as a nickname for a squat thickset man or a habitational name from any of several places in various parts of France called (Le) Carré named with the same word.2: French: metonymic occupational name for a cartwright or carter from the dialect word carre ‘cart wagon’ (see 3 below).3: English: from Middle English carre ‘cart wagon chariot sled’ (Anglo-Norman French Old French char ‘cart’ from Latin carrus) used to denote a carrier or a cartwright.4: English: sometimes a variant of Carr in northern and eastern (Scandinavian-influenced) counties.5: Catalan (Carré): topographic name from a variant of carrer ‘street’.

Kar : 1: Indian (West Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Kayastha name probably from Sanskrit kara ‘doer worker assistant’.2: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 賈 perhaps based on its Cantonese pronunciation; see Jia 1.3: Turkish: ornamental name nickname or topographic name from kar ‘snow’.4: Jewish: perhaps a nickname from Hebrew kar ‘cold’.5: Scottish: possibly a variant of Kerr.6: Dutch (Van de Kar): metonymic occuptational name for a cart-driver from Middle Dutch carre kerre ‘two-wheeled cart’.

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Last name frequency

Geographic distribution of the 677,629 individuals with the name CARRE on Geneanet.

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