Ahern Family History
Ahern Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEachthighearna
‘descendant of Eachthighearna’, a personal name meaning ‘lord
of horses’, from each ‘horse’ + tighearna ‘master,
lord’. In Ireland, the name is most common in the southwest. Compare
Hearn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Ahern Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Ahern families
 116 - 229  39 - 115 |
 1 - 38  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Ahern families
|
44 - 86 15 - 43 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Ahern families
|
2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Ahern Family Origin
Ahern Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Ahern
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Ahern Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Ahern Civil War Service Records
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