Carp Family History
Carp Name Meaning
German, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant
spelling of Karp.English: from Middle English, Old French
carpe ‘carp’, in some cases a nickname for a greedy person or
for someone thought to resemble the fish in some other way; also a
metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or a seller of the
fish.English: possibly a nickname for a garrulous or
complaining person, from Middle English carp(e) ‘carping
speech’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carp
Name Distribution of Carp Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carp families
 18 - 34  7 - 17 |
 1 - 6  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carp families
|
23 - 43 8 - 22 |
1 - 7 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Carp census records
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Carp Family Origin
Carp Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Carp
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Carp Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Carp census records
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Carp Civil War Service Records
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