Family name origins & meanings
- Greek : nickname for a black-haired or gloomy individual, from karas ‘black’, ‘dark’ (and by extension ‘moody’), from Turkish kara ‘black’. It is also found in many compound surnames such as Karageorgiou ‘black George’ (patronymic).
- Greek : occupational name for a carter, Greek karas (from karo ‘cart’ + the occupational suffix -as).