 English and Scottish: topographic name for someone who lived by  a patch of wet ground overgrown with brushwood, northern Middle  English kerr (Old Norse kjarr). A legend â¦ grew up that  the Kerrs were left-handed, on theory that the name is derived from  Gaelic cearr 'wrong-handed', 'left-handed'.omez comes from her mom, by way of Puerto Rico!   HER MOM IS â¦ BLACK AND DAD IS PUERTO RICAN. I THINK GOMEZ IS HER MIDDLE NAME. IT MAY BE PUERTO RICAN NAME.   The first answer is correct the second one is wrong. Her mother Cheryl Gomez is Puerto Rican, and her father Dr. Bennett Preston is African American.