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char Name Meaning and History

  1. French: from French char ‘cart’, metonymic occupational name for a carter.
  2. Anglicized spelling of Slovenian Car, a nickname from carati ‘to practice sorcery’.
  3. Indian (Karnataka): Hindu (Brahman) name, from Sanskrit acarya ‘teacher’, ‘spiritual guide’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The char name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the char family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of char Families in the US in 1920
Number of char families
 19-36
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Death of Mr. Ben Tin Kong Char in China davwayell 0
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