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  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.
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βˆ™ 10y ago

The proud Scottish surname of Kerr means "black" or "dark brown". It is first recorded in northwestern England's Lancashire, in 1180 A.D.

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βˆ™ 15y ago

It's an Irish and Scottish surname.

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βˆ™ 14y ago

The surname Kerr comes from Ireland

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