First name content excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to 30,000 Baby Names © 2005 by Marcia Layton Turner. Buy this book online or call 1-800-253-6476.
Last name content copyright © 2006 Patrick Hanks.
Last name origin & meaning:
Americanized spelling of a Slavic surname meaning ‘innkeeper’, for example Czech Kačmář, Krčmář, Slsovak Krčmár, or Polish Ka(r)czmarz (see Kaczmar). Compare German Kretschmer.