Family name origins & meanings
- Irish (Kerry) : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Saoghair, which in turn may be a patronymic from a Gaelicized form of the Old English personal name Saeger (see 2 below).
- English : patronymic from a Middle English personal name Saher or Seir (see Sayer 1).
- Americanized form of French Cyr.
- Richard Sears came to Plymouth, MA, from England about 1630.
