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kieran Name Meaning and History

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ciaráin ‘descendant of Ciarán’, a byname from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black-haired’. It was borne by two Irish saints, a hermit of the 5th century and the founder of the monastery at Clonmacnoise (d. 547).

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Distribution of kieran Families in the US in 1920
Number of kieran families
 9-15
 4-8
 1-3
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Natthew Kieran - Coole Townland - Ardee GrahamAWilson 0
Kieran in America Katie Comstock 1
Hello out there Patrick Kieran 18
Owen Kieran/Julia Marron OwenK 14
Birkenhead cf_mullaney 0
Kieran's in New York and New Jersey Dawn Kieran 0
Kieran - Louth - USA - Australia 132506 3
looking for father charles e kieran 0
Kieran's Sandra Kieran 0
Hi! Gavin Kieran 0
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