The cairns Surname
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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