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Updated March 6, 2024

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Portuguese and Galician : habitational name from any of various places so named in Portugal (and Galicia), from carreira ‘road’, ‘thoroughfare’, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (from Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’).

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