Last name: KEARNS
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KEARNS : This last name is indexed 50,050 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KEARNS : Irish:: 1: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín ‘descendant of Céirín’ a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark black’ with the addition of English excrescent -s.2: in Ulster possibly a variant of Cairns.
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