Last name origins & meanings:
- Cornish: topographic name from Cornish carn ‘cairn’, or
a habitational name from any of several places in Cornwall named Carne
from this word.
- French: metonymic
occupational name from Old Picard carne ‘hinge’ (Old French
charnel).
- French (Carné): nickname for a thin man
or alternatively for a fat one. The surname derives from the past
participle of Norman, Picard, and Occitan carner (Old French
charner), from c(h)ar ‘flesh’, ‘meat’, from Latin
caro, genitive carnis. This term was used in a variety
of senses, as for example ‘to strip flesh from the bone’ or ‘to feed
animals with meat’, and it is from this that the ambiguity of the
nickname arises.
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