Meaning & History
Spanish: topographic name for someone living by a main road, carrera ‘thoroughfare’, originally a road passable by vehicles as well as pedestrians (Late Latin carraria (via), a derivative of carrum ‘cart’), or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word.
Southern Italian: habitational name from a place named Carrera.
Southern Italian: habitational name from a place named Carrera.