Given name & surname
Carr
“from the swampy place”
Carr is used as a given name and a surname. One Scandinavian interpretation is “from the swampy place.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Scandinavian interpretation is “from the swampy place.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Scandinavian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Carr through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 200
- 200 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1940
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 11 in 1940. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 339 as a first name in 2020; 115,016 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Carr’s family of names
Carr has a related form in Carre. In English usage, Carr as a surname has a related form in KER. In English usage, Carr as a surname has a related form in Kerr.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Carr
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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