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The carver Surname

carver Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a carver of wood or a sculptor of stone, from an agent derivative of Middle English kerve(n) ‘to cut or carve’.
  2. English: occupational name for a plowman, from Anglo-Norman French caruier, from Late Latin carrucarius, a derivative of carruca ‘cart’, ‘plow’.
  3. Americanized spelling of German Garber, Gerber, or Körber (see Koerber).
  4. Irish: variant of Carvey.
  5. Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McCarver.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of carver Families in the US in 1920
Number of carver families
 102-201
 35-101		 1-34
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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