# Kerr

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /kɜː/ · frequency rank #12,263

## Definitions
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.

## 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”), possibly related to Irish Gaelic ceàrr (“left-handed”) and/or Old Norse kjarr.
* 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”).

## Easily confused with
- **key** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-key)
- **Kev** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kev)
- **kew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kew)
- **KKR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kkr)
- **kor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kor)
- **keys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-keys)
- **Kurt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kurt)
- **kirk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kirk)
- **Kira** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kira)
- **keto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-keto)
- **KORS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kors)
- **Kyra** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kyra)
- **Kerry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kerr-vs-kerry)
- **Ke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ke-vs-kerr)
- **ken** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ken-vs-kerr)
- **kei** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kei-vs-kerr)
- **keg** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/keg-vs-kerr)
- **kee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kee-vs-kerr)
- **kar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kar-vs-kerr)
- **ker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ker-vs-kerr)

## Common misspellings (3)
`ekrr`, `kkerr`, `krer`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kerr