Kerr (given name) explained

Kerr is traditionally an English and Scottish surname, a topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland. Middle English kerr means ‘brushwood wet ground.’^[1] People with the given name Kerr include:

Kerr
Gender:	Male
Region:	England, Scotland

• Kerr Avon, fictional character from Blakes 7
• Kerr Eby (1890–1946), American illustrator
• Kerr Grant (1878–1967), Australian physicist
• Kerr Kriisa (born 2001), Estonian basketball player
• Kerr Neilson, Australian funds manager
• W. Kerr Scott (1896–1958), North Carolina governor and US senator
• Kerr Smith (born 1972), American actor

See also

• Clan Kerr, origins of the name
• Kerr (surname)

Notes and References

1. Book: Dictionary of American Family Names . 2022 . 2 . English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by a marsh or swampy woodland Middle English kerr ‘brushwood wet ground’.