Family name origins & meanings
- German : nickname from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’ ‘sly’, ‘tricky’.
- Jewish (Ashkenazic) : nickname for a mean person, from Yiddish karg(er) ‘stingy’, ‘niggardly’ (from Middle High German karc ‘cunning’).
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