Kerr

Meaning

1. A surname.
2. A township in Champaign County, Illinois, United States.
3. A census-designated place in Lake County, Montana, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Gallia County, Ohio, United States.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɜː/

Etymology

* 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”), itself from Old Norse kjarr. Possibly influenced by Irish ceàrr (“left-handed”).
* 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”).

Sentences

Kerr worked on limited resources to create team capable of challenging the best .