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The carter Surname

carter Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a transporter of goods, Middle English cartere, from an agent derivative of Middle English cart(e) or from Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier, a derivative of Old French caret (see Cartier). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’, which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt, both of which, like the Late Latin word, were probably originally derived from Celtic.
  2. Northern Irish: reduced form of McCarter.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of carter Families in the US in 1920
Number of carter families
 1689-3375
 564-1688		 1-563
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