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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) and Czech : from a diminutive of karas ‘crucian carp’ (see Karas), presumably a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisher or a nickname for someone thought to resemble the fish. As a Jewish name it is mainly an ornamental name.
  • Czech : from a derivative of the personal name Karel.

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