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carrier Name Meaning and History

  1. English and southern French: from Middle English, Old French car(r)ier (Late Latin carrarius, a derivative of carrum ‘cart’, ‘wagon’, of Gaulish origin); in English an occupational name for someone who transported goods, in French for a cartwright.
  2. French: occupational name for a stonemason or quarryman, carrier.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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carrier Family Facts

Distribution of carrier Families in the US in 1920
Number of carrier families
 74-145
 25-73		 1-24
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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