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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone living by a bend in a road, from a derivative of Kehr 1.
  • German : occupational name for a cleaner, from an agent derivative of Middle Low or Middle High German kēren ‘to sweep’. Compare Feger.

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