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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Spanish : possibly from Spanish viernes ‘Friday’.
  • Occitan (Viernés) and Catalan (Viernès) : variants of Occitan Biarnés and Catalan Biarnès or Bearnès (alongside the variants Biernés, Biernès), a regional name for somebody from the region of Biarn (Catalan Bearn), in southern France.

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