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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : occupational name for a carter, from karro ‘cart’ + the occupational suffix -as.
  • Greek : nickname from karas ‘black’, ‘dark’, a variant spelling of Carras.
  • German : variant spelling of Karas 1.

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