Family name origins & meanings
- German : from Gero, Kero, a reduced and altered form of the personal name Gerhard (see Gerhardt), or sometimes a nickname for a greedy person, from Middle High German gere ‘greed’.
- German : from Middle High German kerze ‘candle’, applied as a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a candle or as a metonymic occupational name for a candle maker.
- German : from Polish Kierz, a topographic name from kierz ‘small bush’.