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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Variant of Scottish Carrick or reduced form of Irish McCarrick.
  • Possibly also German : metonymic occupational name for a carter or cartwright, from Middle High German karrech ‘cart’, from Latin carruca. Compare Karcher.

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