Last name: KIERNAN
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KIERNAN : This last name is indexed 29,302 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
KIERNAN : Irish: shortened form of McKiernan an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Thighearnáin ‘son of Tighearnan’ (see Tiernan).
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