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Meaning & Origins
Pet form of Charles and Charlotte, now popular as an independent given name for both boys and girls.
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English (Northumbria): 1. topographic name for someone who lived by the Wear river in northern England. The river name is ancient, occuring in the form Vedra in Ptolemy's Geographia; it is probably a Celtic word meaning ‘water’. 2. topographic name for someone who lived near a dam or weir, a variant spelling of Ware 1, or a habitational name from a place called Weare, in Devon and Somerset, from Old English wær, wer ‘weir’.
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Nicknames & variations
Charle, Charley, Charly, Charla, Charlee, Charyl, Charli, Charl, Cheryl, Charelle
Weir, Weary, Wehr, Wearing, Wears, Weare, Wyar, Wharrie, Werre, Wearne
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