as a Last Name
- 14,394
- people in the U.S. have this name View all people named Kearns
Meaning & Origins
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín ‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’. English patronymic -s has been added superfluously.
| 2,187th in the U.S. for 2011 |
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Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 14,394
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Kearns per capita
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