Updated June 9, 2019

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Greek : variant spelling of Caras.
  • English : habitational name from any of several places called Carr House or Carrhouse (examples of which are found in northern counties including Cheshire and Yorkshire), from Middle English kerr ‘wet ground’ or ‘brushwood’ (Old Norse with kjarr; see Kerr) + h(o)us ‘house’ (Old English hūs).