Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant spelling of Tart.
- French : metonymic occupational name for a maker and seller of fine pastries, from Old French tarte ‘tart’, ‘pastry’.
- Possibly an altered form of Tartre, a regional variant of Tertre, a habitational name from a common place name meaning ‘height’, ‘hill’.
- A Tartre with the secondary surname <xref>Lariviere</xref>, from the Saintonge region of France, is documented in Montreal in 1697.