Carter

Carter comes from an English occupational surname given to a person who transported goods by cart or wagon, from the Middle English carte, a word of Norse and Norman French origin. Like many trade surnames, such as Cooper, Mason and Parker, it later passed into use as a given name. The English archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the nearly intact tomb of the pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings, one of the most celebrated finds in Egyptology. As a surname it was also borne by Jimmy Carter, president of the United States, and by the folk musicians of the Carter Family.