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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized spelling of Karcz.
  • German : metonymic occupational name for a carter, from Middle High German karrech ‘barrow’, ‘two-wheeled cart’.
  • northern or central German variant of Karg.

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