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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish (Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below).
  • English : patronymic from a Middle English personal name Saher or Seir (see Sayer 1).
  • Americanized form of French Cyr.
  • Richard Sears came to Plymouth, MA, from England about 1630.

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