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Kerr.

A surname.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/kɜː/UK/kɛə/UK/kɛɹ/US
  1. A surname.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.

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  3. A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States.

    countable · uncountable
  4. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States.

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Where this word comes from

* As an English and Scottish topographic surname for someone who lived by a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, from Middle English kerr (“brushwood”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr. * As an Irish surname, variant of Carr. * As a German surname, Americanized from Kehr. * As a Scottish Gaelic surname, from mac gille chéir (“son of the dusky laid”), from ciar (“black”).

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