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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Celtic : Warrior
  • Gaelic : Dark

Boy name variations

Kearney

Kearney

- 17% this year
Masculine
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Karney

Karney

0 % this year
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Karny

Karny

0 % this year
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Kerney

Kerney

0 % this year
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Kirney

Kirney

0 % this year
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Kern

Kern

0 % this year
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Curran

Curran

- 44% this year
Masculine
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Kearn

Kearn

0 % this year
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Kearne

Kearne

0 % this year
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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín ‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’. English patronymic -s has been added superfluously.

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