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cairns Name Meaning and History

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.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The cairns name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the cairns family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of cairns Families in the US in 1920
Number of cairns families
 47-91
 16-46		 1-15
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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