Updated June 9, 2019

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Celtic, Gaelic : Dark-haired child

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Small and dark-skinned
  • Gaelic : Dark
  • Gaelic : Small and dark-skinned

Boy name variations

Ciaran

Ciaran

+ 17% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Kiernan

Kiernan

- 24% this year
Masculine
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Kieron

Kieron

+ 10% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Key

Key

0 % this year
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Kerwin

Kerwin

0 % this year
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Rare
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Kirwin

Kirwin

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Kerry

Kerry

+ 24% this year
Neutral
Rare
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Kerr

Kerr

0 % this year
Masculine
Rare
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Ceirnin

Ceirnin

0 % this year
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Carra

Carra

0 % this year
Neutral
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Curran

Curran

- 44% this year
Masculine
Rare
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Kearn

Kearn

0 % this year
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Kearne

Kearne

0 % this year
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Kearns

Kearns

0 % this year
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Kieran

Kieran

+ 7% this year
Neutral
Uncommon
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How Popular Is The Name Kern

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced form of McCarron.
  • German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from Middle High German kerne ‘kernel’, ‘seed’, ‘pip’; Middle Dutch kern(e), keerne; German Kern or Yiddish kern ‘grain’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a farmer, or a nickname for a small person. As a Jewish surname, it is mainly ornamental.
  • English : probably a metonymic occupational name for a maker or user of hand mills, from Old English cweorn ‘hand mill’, or a habitational name for someone from Kern in the Isle of Wight, named from this word.