McCarr is used as a family name or surname in Scotland, Ireland. It is 6 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: McCarr
No. of characters: 6
Origin: Scotland, Ireland
Meaning:

Family name is a form of the Cary. See Carey - The Carews of the West of England pronounce their name as if written Carey, and hence the surnames have been accounted identical. See, however, Cary

"The ancient family of Cary derives its surname from the manor of Cary or Karl, as it is called in Doomsday Book, lying in the St.Giles-on-th Heath, near Launcestor."

The surname is a variation of Carey. The Carews of the West of England pronounce their name as if written Carey, and hence the surnames have been accounted identical. See, however, Cary.

McCarr is a form of the Cary. Castle, but sometimes a corruption of Carew, q.v. Caer is pronounced, in Corish, "cerry," "carry," or "cary." Adam de Karry was living in county Somerset in 1198, and John Carew or Cary, of the same couunty, emigrated to N. E. circa 1637.

McCarr is a form of Carey. Grandson of the dark-complexioned man.

The variant form of O'Cary. The Four Masters record the sept of O'Cary as lords of Carbury, county of Kildare, from a very early period of Irish history.

How popular is McCarr?

As per 2010 US census, number of Mccarrs plummeted by 15.38 per cent to 121 since 2000 and slipped by 24785 spots and ranked at 138304. The last name was found in merely 4 per ten million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
American Indian and Alaska Native 33.88 20.28
Black 31.4 45.45
White 24.79 32.17
Hispanic or Latino 5.79 0
Others 4.13 0

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