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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish : reduced form of McCart.
  • English : from Middle English cart(e) ‘cart’ (from Old English cræt, Old Norse kartr), hence a metonymic occupational name for a carter or cartwright.
  • French : from Old Occitan cart, a variant of quart, a term which in the Middle Ages denoted a tax levied on wine; hence possibly a metonymic occupational name for a tax collector.

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