Hearn Family History
Hearn Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hEachthighearna ‘descendant of Eachthighearna’, a personal
name meaning ‘lord of horses’, from each ‘horse’ +
tighearna ‘master’, ‘lord’. This name is most common in
southwestern Ireland.Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó
hUidhrín (see Herron).English: variant of
Heron 1.English: topographic name for someone who lived by
a bend in a river or in a recess in a hill, both of which are meanings
of Middle English herne (Old English hyrne). It may also
be a habitational name from any of the various places, such as Herne
in Kent and Hurn in Dorset, which are named with the Old English
word. Its exact original sense and its etymology are not clear; it may
be a derivative of horn ‘horn’.English: habitational name
from Herne in Bedfordshire, so called from the dative plural
(originally used after a preposition) of Old English hær
‘stone’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Hearn Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Hearn families
 83 - 164  28 - 82 |
 1 - 27  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hearn families
|
574 - 1,146 192 - 573 |
1 - 191 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Hearn families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Hearn Family Origin
Hearn Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Hearn
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Hearn Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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