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Kearney

in the US

There are 16,831 people with the last name "Kearney" in the United States.

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NameRank
Kearney 1,625
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  1. is 1,621st most common Keenan
  2. is 1,622nd most common Peralta
  3. is 1,623rd most common Tripp
  4. is 1,624th most common Eddy
  5. is 1,625th most common Kearney
  6. is 1,626th most common Duvall
  7. is 1,627th most common Roper
  8. is 1,628th most common Villalobos
  9. is 1,629th most common Winston

Similar Names and Nicknames

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

Most Common First Names for Kearney

John, James, Michael, William, Robert, Mary, Thomas, Joseph, Patrick, 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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