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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : of uncertain origin; perhaps a topographic name, either from the South German dialect word kar ‘bowl-shaped valley’, (from Middle High German kar ‘bowl’, ‘basket’, ‘vessel’), or alternatively from kār ‘(sharp) turn or bend in the road’.

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