The kerr Surname
kerr Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- Irish: see Carr.
- 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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