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There are approximately 14,832 people named Parr in the UK. That makes it the 682nd most common surname overall. Out of every million people in the UK, approximately 235 are named Parr.

Region of origin

British Isles

Country of origin

England

Language of origin

English

Religion of origin

Christian

Classification

English
Location or Geographical Feature

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The Parr surname in historical dictionaries

Patronymica Britannica (1860)

PARR. In Eng. Surn. i. 169, I ventured to derive this surname from Peter, and this, through the Fr. Pierre, is probably the true origin of it in some cases ; but a correspondent (the Rev. Henry Parr) says : " it is derived from the manor of Parr in Lancashire, which is also a township, and of late years has become a cliapelry. There all my ancestors were settled from the XIII. century, and there is sufficient reason for concluding, that every family bearing the name has branched out from the same parent stock." B.L.G. Nichols' Topographer, iii. 353.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

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