Boy name origins & meanings
- Old English : From the stable
Family name origins & meanings
- English : habitational name from Parr in Lancashire, which was named in Old English with pearr ‘enclosure’.
- German : from Middle Low German parre ‘parish’, ‘district’, ‘minister’s house’; a metonymic occupational name for a parson or for someone who worked in a parsonage or manse. Compare Pfarr.