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Carrie is French, & it means: song of joy.

Knight is an English occupational or status name designating a lilitary servant to the king or great baron, usually a mounted soldier owing loyalty to his liege lord bound to fight in his quarrels. The name is derived from Old English word "cniht", meaning a boy or youthful servant. The knight was originally just a boy or young servant. The knight stood higher in rank than the franklin, freeman, & burgess, men of free birth, but not of noble birth.

I found information on your last name in various surname books at the library, & various places on the internet such as:www.vitalog.net.

Quoting my own message at the general message board at www.behindthename.com:

Knight is a British occupational surname meaning "mounted warrior." The surname could also originally have been a nickname for a worker in a knight's household.

There's also a possibility that your surname is Irish, as there also exists the McKnight surname. So, your surname could also be a variant of it. Since the "Mc" means "son of" and "Knight" means "brave", the McKnight surname means "son of the brave."

So, your surname is either British or Irish.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Lucille

In one baby book I read that "Carrie" (in all its spellings) is diminuative for "Caroline." It is English extraction. Knight, I believe, is Germanic, but I don't know the exact meaning.