Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A surname. · A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. · A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States. · An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States.
* 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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