Bourke vs Carr

Bourke

name
  • A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place. 

Carr

name
  • An Irish surname, a variant of Kilcar. 

  • A surname from Irish, anglicized from Irish Ó Carra, Ó Cairre. 

  • A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, a variant of Kerr. 

  • A river in West Greenwich, Rhode Island; flowing 6 km from Carr Pond to the Big River. 

  • An unincorporated community in North Carolina. 

  • A northern English habitational surname from Old Norse derived from Old Norse kjarr (“brushwood”). 

  • An unincorporated community in Colorado; named for railroad official Robert E. Carr. 

How often have the words Bourke and Carr occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )