Carr Family History
Carr Name Meaning
Northern English and Scottish: variant of
Kerr.Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chathair, a
Donegal name meaning ‘son of the servant of Cathair’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Carr Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Carr families
 907 - 1,811  303 - 906 |
 1 - 302  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Carr families
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2,238 - 4,474 747 - 2,237 |
1 - 746 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Carr families
|
203 - 404 68 - 202 |
1 - 67 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Carr Family Origin
Carr Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Carr
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Carr Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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