Carey

Meanings

1. A placename:
2. A hamlet in Ballingham parish and Little Dewchurch parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5631).
3. A place in the United States, including:
4. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Georgia.
5. A minor city in Blaine County, Idaho.
6. A village in Crawford Township, Wyandot County, Ohio.
7. An unincorporated community in Childress County, Texas.
8. A town in Iron County, Wisconsin.
9. An island of Nunavut, Canada, in James Bay off the coast of Quebec; in full, Carey Island.
10. A surname.
11. An English habitational surname from either of these placenames.
12. A surname from Irish, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Ciardha.

Etymology

* As a German surname, Americanized from Gehrig, Gehring. * As a Welsh surname, variant of Carew. * As an English surname, from placenames derived from Proto-Brythonic *karɨd (“to love”). * As an Irish surname, from mac Fhiachra (“descendant of Fiachra”), from préachán (“crow”). * Also as an Irish surname, from the root of the name Kerry.