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    Dixie Carter (1939 - 2010)
    Tombstone inscription: The Lord is my strength and my song. * Dixie Virginia Carter* Born: May 25, 1939* Birth Place: McLemoresville, Tennessee* Dixie passed away April 10th, 2010 at the age of 70>"Thi...
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    Lynda Carter
    Lynda Carter is an American actor, singer, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss World USA 1972 and finished in the top 15 at the Miss World 1972 pageant. Carter is best known as the sta...
  • Vince Carter
    Lamar Carter (born January 26, 1977) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and plays ...
  • Helena Bonham Carter, CBE
    Helena Bonham Carter CBE (born 26 May 1966) is an English actress. Awarded by Queen Elizabeth II with a CBE (Commander of the Order of the Briitish Empire) on 31 December 2011, she is known for her ...
  • Ashton Carter, United States Secretary of Defense (1954 - 2022)
    Wikipedia Ashton Baldwin "Ash" Carter (born September 24, 1954) is the United States Secretary of Defense. He is also a physicist and a former Harvard University professor of Science and International ...

(Anglo-Norman French car(e)tier Old French charetier medieval Latin carettarius carettator). The Old French word coalesced with the earlier Middle English word cart(e) ‘cart’ which is from either Old Norse kartr or Old English cræt both of which like the Late Latin word were probably derived from Celtic. This surname is also very common among African Americans. Irish: shortened form of McCarter . Americanized form of German Karter ‘carder’. Americanized form (translation into English) of French Cartier .

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
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