Last name: KEIR
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KEIR : This last name is indexed 21,048 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KEIR : Scottish (central): habitational name from a place in Dunblane (Perthshire) called Keir. The placename may be from Scots keir ‘ancient fortification’ or if old from the source of this Brittonic or Pictish cair.
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