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Kearney

in Massachusetts

There are 803 people with the last name "Kearney" in Massachusetts.

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Ranking in Massachusetts

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Kearney 915
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  1. is 911th most common Labonte
  2. is 912th most common Lamb
  3. is 913th most common Booth
  4. is 914th most common Davies
  5. is 915th most common Kearney
  6. is 916th most common Keith
  7. is 917th most common Holden
  8. is 918th most common Eldridge
  9. is 919th most common Miles

Similar Names and Nicknames

Kearns, Kearse, Kear, Kearley, Kearl, Kearby, Kearn, Kearbey, Kearsley, Keary

Most Common First Names for Kearney

John, Michael, James, Robert, Mary, Joseph, William, Richard, Brian, Paul

Meaning & History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catharnaigh ‘descendant of Catharnach’, a byname meaning ‘warlike’ or ‘soldier’, and Ó Cearnaigh, from cearnach ‘victorious’. Both surnames were widely distributed and are now very difficult to disentangle.

FOREBEARS Many present-day bearers of this name are descended from Tadhg Ó Catharnaigh, killed in battle in 1084. He was nicknamed An Sionnach ‘the Fox’, and for this reason the surname has sometimes been Anglicized as Fox. Denis Kearney, born in Oakmont, Ireland, in 1847, was a major U.S. labor movement leader.

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