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The kerr Surname

kerr Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legend grew up that the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from Gaelic cearr ‘wrong-handed’, ‘left-handed’.
  2. Irish: see Carr.
  3. This surname has also absorbed examples of German Kehr.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kerr Families in the US in 1920
Number of kerr families
 536-1069
 179-535		 1-178
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Kerr's of Noblesville Indiana pattycake45_1 3
Kerr, Willbern texvettech 0
Obit: Donald L. Kerr of Iowa (1952-2008) pbbut 0
Nathaniel Kerr Sammie Simpson 4
Looking for a Mr. Kerr/Carr -d. 1879/1880 Sherriedavids1 0
JAMES KERR-1771-NIR>PA Patricia_Row 22
Kerrs in NSW Australia nutosa 10
Kerr clan lorilei28 9
Theodore Kerr - any photos RKERR56_1 0
Leslie Kerr sharonmarvin14 4
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