Family name origins & meanings
- Finnish : most probably from a Germanic personal name such as Garuward or Garufrid.
- Finnish : alternatively, perhaps from karva ‘fur’, ‘hair’ (possibly applied as a nickname) + the common surname suffix -nen.
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