Last Name CARNE

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Meaning Local: Of Carne. Cornish 'carn,' a rock = xairn. South and West Carne are in the parish of Alternun, near Launceston. ANother Carne is a small place in the parish of St. Anthony-in-Meneage; also, there is another Carne in the parish of Crowan, near Camborne, all in Cornwall.
Local: A rock, a heap of stones. This family claim descent from 'Ithel,' King of Ghent, now Monmouthshire. Thomas o'r Gare, youngest son of Ithel, King of Ghent, was brought up at one of his father's seats called 'Pencarne' (from 'pen,' the head, and 'carne,' a rock, a heap of stones), whence he was named 'Carne,' which continues the surname of the family.
Origin English, Welsh, Spanish, Irish, Belgian, Zimbabwean

Rank 37,266 (2000 US census) 58,101 (1990 US census)
Count 563 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.32%, or 531 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.95%, or 11 total occurrences, as black,
  • undisclosed % as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.89%, or 5 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • undisclosed % as two or more races, and
  • 1.95%, or 11 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Longest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

 Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...

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