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Kearney

in North Carolina

There are 1,468 people with the last name "Kearney" in North Carolina.

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Ranking in North Carolina

NameRank
Kearney 732
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  1. is 728th most common Roach
  2. is 729th most common Craven
  3. is 730th most common Clay
  4. is 731st most common Haney
  5. is 732nd most common Kearney
  6. is 733rd most common Bartlett
  7. is 734th most common Hollifield
  8. is 735th most common Sessoms
  9. is 736th most common Shields

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kearney

James, Michael, William, Mary, John, Robert, Joseph, Barbara, Larry, Patricia

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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