Carbery Last Name: Meaning and Heraldic Roots

Arms linked to Carberry and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Carbery and Carberry are two spellings with one history. In origin, the name means “Grandson of Cairbre (charioteer)”.

Without the “r” of Carberry, Carbery is a simpler written form of the same name. Local scribes, dialects and emigration all left their mark on how the name was written. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Carbery with 259 bearers, at rank 74,608. Carbery sounds close to Gärber, so it can help to search both.

Research your Carbery family history with a full surname report and painted coat of arms.