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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of McCartan or McCartney.
  • Northern French : occupational name for a carter, charreton, charton.
  • French : from Old French carton, a measure of cereals; hence a metonymic occupational name for a grain merchant.

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