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Last name origins & meanings:

1. French (Carrière): topographic name for someone who lived on a fairly major thoroughfare, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (from Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’).
2. Italian: occupational name for a carter or cartwright (see Carriero).
3. A bearer of the name from Guyenne is documented in Montreal in 1670.