Americanized
form of German Kärlein, perhaps from a diminutive of Middle
High German kar ‘bowl’, ‘measure of grain’, ‘depression’,
‘basin’, hence a metonymic occupational name for someone who made
bowls or for someone who measured out grain, or a topographic name for
someone who lived in a hollow.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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