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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : House
  • Norse : Marshland

Boy name variations

Kerr

Kerr

0 % this year
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Keir

Keir

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Kirby

Kirby

+ 3% this year
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Kir

Kir

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Masculine
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Family name origins & meanings

  • English and Scottish : variant of Carr.
  • Hungarian (Kér) : one of the eight ancient Hungarian tribal names from the Magyar conquest of the Carpathian basin. The Kér tribe, led by a chief called Vata settled in what is now known as Békés county, but King Steven I resettled the tribe in royal estates, far away from their original residence. Thus the 42 villages named after the Kér tribe are scattered around in Hungary.

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