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kar Name Meaning and History

  1. Indian (Bengal) and Bangladeshi: Hindu (Kayasth) name, probably from Sanskrit kara ‘doer’, ‘hand’.
  2. Jewish: origin uncertain; perhaps a nickname from Hebrew kar ‘cold’.

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

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

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Distribution of kar Families in the US in 1920
Number of kar families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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