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Carver Name Meaning
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’.English: occupational name for a plowman, from
Anglo-Norman French caruier, from Late Latin
carrucarius, a derivative of carruca ‘cart’, ‘plow’.Americanized spelling of German Garber,
Gerber, or Körber (see Koerber).Irish: variant of Carvey.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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Carver
Name Distribution of Carver Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carver families
 102 - 201  35 - 101 |
 1 - 34  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carver families
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168 - 334 57 - 167 |
1 - 56 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carver families
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28 - 53 10 - 27 |
1 - 9 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Carver Family Origin
Carver Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Carver
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Carver Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Carver census records
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