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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Croatian, Serbian, and eastern Slovenian : ironic nickname for an autocratic person, from car ‘tsar’.
  • Slovenian (Čar) : see Char.
  • Perhaps also French : metonymic occupational name for cartwright or carter, from char ‘wagon’, ‘cart’ (Latin carrus).

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