Kerr Family History
Kerr Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Kerr Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kerr families
 536 - 1,069  179 - 535 |
 1 - 178  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kerr families
|
474 - 945 159 - 473 |
1 - 158 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kerr families
|
2,246 - 4,490 749 - 2,245 |
1 - 748 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kerr Family Origin
Kerr Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Kerr
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Kerr Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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