Carra Family History
Carra Name Meaning
Italian: topographic name for someone who lived in a stony land from carra ‘stone rock’. Italian (Sicily; Carrà): habitational name from Carrà in Messina province. Alternatively an altered form of Greek Karras Italian (northern; Carrà): topographic name for someone who lived near a carriage road from the dialect word carà or a habitational name from Caràa a dialect form of Carate in Lombardy. Spanish (mainly La Rioja and Navarre): possibly a nickname from a regional short form of carraco ‘sickly person’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022