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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : probably a variant of Karremann, an occupational name for a carter (see Karman 1). Middle Low German kar(re) is an early loanword from Latin carrus ‘cart’, ‘wagon’.
  • Dutch : occupational name for a cart or wagon driver.

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