Girl name origins & meanings
- English : Song
- Old German : Freeholder; English feminine form of Carolus; Originally a short form of Caroline; feminine form of Charles
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Boy name origins & meanings
- Old German : Free man; a variation of Charles
- Old English : Manly
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Family name origins & meanings
- French : from Old French quar(r)el ‘bolt (for a crossbow)’ (Late Latin quadrellum, a diminutive of quadrum ‘square’), hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of crossbow bolts, or a nickname for a short, stout man.