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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hIarnáin, Ó hEarnáin, ‘descendant of Iarnán, Earnán’, possibly from i-arn ‘iron’.
  • Irish : reduced form of Heffernan.

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