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Updated June 9, 2019

How Popular Is The Name Carrera

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : topographic name for someone living by a main road, carrera ‘thoroughfare’, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’), or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.
  • Southern Italian : habitational name from a place named Carrera, cognate with 1.

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