as a Last Name
- 5,259
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Cairns
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: from Gaelic carn ‘cairn’, a topographic name for someone who lived by a cairn, i.e. a pile of stones raised as a boundary marker or a memorial.
| 5,692nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,259
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- New Hampshire
- has the most people named Cairns per capita
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