as a Last Name
- 50,530
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kerr
Meaning & Origins
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 ‘wronghanded’, ‘left-handed’.
| 680th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 50,530
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Oklahoma
- has the most people named Kerr per capita
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