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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French : from Old French charette ‘cart’, a diminutive of char(re), probably acquired as a metonymic occupational name for a user or maker of carts.
  • A Charet from Poitiers is recorded in the 1666 census of Quebec city.

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