Carver

English
"wood carver"

Carver Origin and Meaning

The name Carver is a boy's name of English origin meaning "wood carver".

Carver is an occupational name with an artistic bent, as is the newly arrived Painter, which has a fresher feel than the 1990's Carter. It also has eminent last-name links to botanist and educator George Washington Carver and short story master Raymond Carver.

Carver appears as a character in the R. D. Blackmore classic Lorna Doone.

# 1956 on Nameberry

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Carver Popularity

Carver in Pop Culture

  • Carver Doone
    villain in "Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor" by R.D. Blackmore
  • Carver Descartes
    character on "The Weekenders"
  • Carver
    FEMALE character in "Bring It On" (2000)
  • Carver Edlund
    pseudonym of Chuck Shurley, character on TV's "Supernatural"
  • Carver Hawke
    brother of the protagonist in the video game "Dragon Age II"
  • Carver
    character in video game "Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation"
  • Carver Briggs
    character in "Goodbye Days" by Jeff Zentner