Names

Occupational surname for a carver, from Middle English kerve “cut”.

Means “oak” in Portuguese, perhaps originally referring to a person who lived near such a tree.

Means “close-cropped hair” in Italian, also having the secondary sense “boy, young man”.

Occupational name for a person who operated a cart to transport goods, from Norman French caretier. A famous bearer is the former American president Jimmy Carter (1924-).

Occupational name indicating one who made carts.

Means “son of Carsten”.

Meaning uncertain, possibly from the town of Courson in Normandy.

From the given name Cearbhall. A famous bearer was Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), whose real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Topographic name derived from Spanish carrasca meaning “holm oak” (species Quercus ilex).

From the name of a city in Tuscany famous for its marble quarries. It is probably derived from Late Latin quadreria meaning “quarry”.