Carr

Carr

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Cedric Errol Carr (1892-1936).

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

• As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Kerr.
• As an Irish surname, from the root of the surname Keary, from ciar (“black”); compare Carey.
• Also as an Irish surname, named after a priest Cathair (compare cathair (“fort”))
• Also as an Irish surname, from a personal name derived from corr (“pointed, projected point”).

• IPA^(key): /kɑː(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
• Homophone: car

Carr (countable and uncountable, plural Carrs)

1. A northern English habitational surname from Old Norse derived from Old Norse kjarr (“brushwood”).
2. A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Kerr.
3. A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Carra, Ó Cairre.
   • 2025 February 3, Brian Stelter, “The FCC’s battle with CBS over its Harris interview is raising red flags”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     That’s what prompted new FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to send a “letter of inquiry” to CBS, asking the network to hand over the unedited tapes and transcript.

4. An Irish surname, a variant of Kilcar.
5. A place in the United States:
   1. An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado; named for railroad official Robert E. Carr.
   2. A township in Clark County, Indiana.
   3. A township in Jackson County, Indiana.
   4. A township in Durham County, North Carolina.
   5. An unincorporated community in Orange County, North Carolina.
   6. A river in West Greenwich, Rhode Island; flowing 6 km from Carr Pond to the Big River.
6. A place in England:
   1. A suburb of Ramsbottom, Metropolitan Borough of Bury, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD7817), and two other locations in Greater Manchester. ^[1]
   2. A hamlet in Laughton en le Morthen parish, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire (OS grid ref SK5190).

• Kerr, Corr, Corry, Corrie, Curry, Corrie, Carry (Irish surname from Ó Carra)

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Carr is the 255^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 119,076 individuals. Carr is most common among White (73.61%) and Black (20.82%) individuals.

• Car (surname)

• ACRR

From carr.

Carr m

1. Charmouth (a village in Dorset, England)
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCXXXIII Hēr ġefeaht Eċġbriht cing wið XXXV sċiphlæsta æt Carrum ⁊ þǣr wearð myċel wæl ġesleġen, ⁊ þā Denisċan āhton wælstōwe ġeweald. ⁊ Hereferð ⁊ Wīġþeġn, twēġen bisċeopas, forðfērdan, ⁊ Duda ⁊ Ōsmōd, twēġen ealdormenn, forðfērdon.

     Year 833 In this year King Edgebright fought against thirty-five shiploads of men at Charmouth, and many were slain, and the Danes took control of the battlefield. And two bishops, Herefrith and Wigthegn, and two aldermen, Duda and Osmod, died.

2. Carhampton (a village in Somerset, England)
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCCXL Hēr Æþelwulf cing ġefeaht æt Carrum wið XXXV sċiphlæsta, ⁊ þā Denisċan āhton wælstōwe ġeweald.

     Year 840 (perhaps rather 836) In this year King Æthelwulf fought at Carhampton against thirty-five shiploads of men, and the Danes took control of the battlefield.

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “Carr”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.