Last name: PARR

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PARR : This last name is indexed 152,292 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

PARR : 1: English: habitational name from Parr in Lancashire or from residence at an enclosure (Middle English parr Old English pearr).3: 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.2: English: variant of Pear with the common late Middle English and early modern English change of -er- to -ar-.

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