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Carver

in New York

There are 510 people with the last name "Carver" in New York.

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Carver 3,280
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  1. is 3,276th most common Tice
  2. is 3,277th most common Wilk
  3. is 3,278th most common Alpert
  4. is 3,279th most common Angel
  5. is 3,280th most common Carver
  6. is 3,281st most common Chappell
  7. is 3,282nd most common Manzella
  8. is 3,283rd most common Naughton
  9. is 3,284th most common Oddo

Most Common First Names for Carver

John, Charles, David, Mary, Eric, Michael, Robert, Lisa, Thomas, Christopher

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Meaning & History

1. English: occupational name for a carver of wood or a sculptor of stone, from an agent derivative of Middle English kerve(n) ‘to cut or carve’.

2. English: occupational name for a plowman, from Anglo-Norman French caruier, from Late Latin carrucarius, a derivative of carruca ‘cart’, ‘plow’.

3. Americanized spelling of German Garber, Gerber, or Körber (see Koerber).

4. Irish: variant of Carvey.

5. Possibly also a reduced form of Irish McCarver.

FOREBEARS John Carver (c. 1576–1621), one of the Mayflower Pilgrims, was the first governor of Plymouth Plantation. He was born in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire, England. Emigrating to Holland in 1609, he joined the Pilgrims at Leyden.

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