Carp Family History
- Carp Name Meaning
- German, Polish, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): variant spelling of Karp. English: from Middle English, Old French carpe ‘carp’, in some cases a nickname for a greedy person or for someone thought to resemble the fish in some other way; also a metonymic occupational name for a carp fisherman or a seller of the fish. English: possibly a nickname for a garrulous or complaining person, from Middle English carp(e) ‘carping speech’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 41,591 Historical Documents with Carp on Ancestry
- 17,734 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,244 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,359 Military Records
- 1,922 Immigration Records
- 6,332 Member Trees
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Number of Carp families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Carp census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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