Last name origins & meanings:
- Lithuanian (Kairys) and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname from Lithuanian kairys ‘left-handed’.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from Kajry
(Kairiai), a village in Lithuania, or a nickname for a left-handed
person, ‘left’.
- Greek: of uncertain etymology. In Crete it
is a nickname for a stingy or avaricious person.
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