Last name: NAIRN
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NAIRN : This last name is indexed 23,273 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
NAIRN : Scottish: habitational name from Nairn (Nairns) near Inverness. The placename is taken from the River Nairn which derives from a Celtic or pre-Celtic word perhaps meaning ‘penetrating one’.
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