Curry (Surname)

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Curry is an English language surname, one of many occupation-based last names in Britain and the British Isles.

Variants include Curry, Currie and Currier. In Ireland and Northern Ireland and Scotland, a person's religious affiliation can be often be inferred from the variant used, with Curry being the Roman Catholic spelling and Currie the Protestant, but this is by no means hard-and-fast.

The name derives from a person charged with caring for horses, particularly with respect to their grooming, and curry (tanner) a person who treats leather.

The verb to curry means "to groom", clean, tan (as in leather) or beat. To curry favour is to seek attention or advantage.

Plurals[edit]

While the plural of the nouns (curry, a food, curry, a tanner, and curry, a groom, is “curries”, the plural of the surname is formed by adding a final 's' to the variant: The Currys or The Curries.