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Heron

in the US

There are 3,142 people with the last name "Heron" in the United States.

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Heron 8,256
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  1. is 8,252nd most common Dingle
  2. is 8,253rd most common Sandstrom
  3. is 8,254th most common Bakke
  4. is 8,255th most common Dame
  5. is 8,256th most common Heron
  6. is 8,257th most common Mcbrayer
  7. is 8,258th most common Pray
  8. is 8,259th most common Gluck
  9. is 8,260th most common Hou

Similar Names and Nicknames

Herold, Herod, Heroux, Hero, Huron, Heronemus, Hiron, Hirohama, Heroy, Heroff

Most Common First Names for Heron

John, James, Robert, Michael, William, David, Charles, Mary, Thomas, Patrick

Meaning & History

English and French (Héron): nickname for a tall, thin person resembling a heron, Middle English heiroun, heyron (Old French hairon, of Germanic origin).

English: habitational name from Harome in North Yorkshire, named with Old English harum, dative plural of hær ‘rock’, ‘stone’. This surname has evidently become confused with 1.

Irish: reduced form of O’Heron, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUidhrín ‘descendant of Uidhrín’, a personal name from a diminutive of odhar ‘dun’, ‘swarthy’.

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin (see Haren).

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Chiaráin ‘son of the servant of (Saint) Ciarán’ (see Kieran).

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