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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swedish : ornamental name from kärr ‘brushwood’ (from Old Norse kjarr).
  • Respelling of various variants of 1 or cognates in other Scandinavian languages, such as Kjaer, Kjärr, Kjær, or K(i)ær.

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