as a Last Name
- 22,357
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Kearney
Meaning & Origins
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.
| 1,620th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 22,357
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- District of Columbia
- has the most people named Kearney per capita
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