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The carr Surname

carr Name Meaning and History

  1. Northern English and Scottish: variant of Kerr.
  2. Irish (Ulster): Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Carra ‘descendant of Carra’, a byname meaning ‘spear’.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chathair, a Donegal name meaning ‘son of the servant of Cathair’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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carr Family Facts

Distribution of carr Families in the US in 1920
Number of carr families
 907-1811
 303-906		 1-302
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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