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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

Irish : From the black fortress
Old English : Wool carder

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

English : metonymic occupational name for someone who carded wool (i.e. disentangled it), preparatory to spinning, from Middle English, Old French card(e) ‘carder’, an implement used for this purpose.
Reduced form of Irish McCard.