Thursday's Name Game

Name:  Carter
Gender:  Male
Character From:  The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan

Meanings and history of the name Carter:

• It is of Old English origin, and the meaning of Carter is "one who transports goods". Occupational name and surname.

Personal Experience:

• A family friend of mine has a little boy named Carter.  He's about 2 years old and is cute as a button.    

Places name Carter:

• Carter County, Tennessee

Famous real-life people named Carter: 

• Carter Burwell, wrote the musical score for the movie Twilight
• Carter Jenkins, actor in the movie Valentine's Day and he has also been on mutiple TV shows 
• Carter Stanley, was a bluegrass musician in the band The Stanley Brothers
• Carter Jefferson, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist
• Carter Oosterhouse, carpenter on the TLC series Trading Spaces 

Carter in song, story & screen:

• Carter, character played by Morgan Freeman in the movie The Bucket List
• Carter Lang, a fictional film director in Joan Didion's novel "Play It as It Lays"

List adapted from www.babynamewizard.com


These are just some I know...what about you?