Girl name origins & meanings
- Polish : Little and strong; form of Carolina
Girl name variations
Family name origins & meanings
- Bulgarian (Káro) : from the Turkish loanword kara ‘black’.
- Jewish (Sephardic, also Ashkenazic) : nickname from Spanish caro ‘dear’. The surname is recorded in Toledo, Spain, in the 14th century. The Ashkenazic branch is ultimately of Sephardic origin.
- Slovenian : unexplained.