# Carstairs

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #58,586

## Definitions
1. A village in South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9346).
2. A town in Mountain View County, central Alberta, Canada.
3. A rural locality in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.
4. A surname.

## Etymology
From Cumbric *cayr (“fort”) + Cumbric *Tarras, a river name.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/carstairs