Kearney Family History
Kearney Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Catharnaigh
‘descendant of Catharnach’, a byname meaning ‘warlike’ or
‘soldier’, and Ó Cearnaigh, from cearnach
‘victorious’. Both surnames were widely distributed and are now very
difficult to disentangle.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Kearney
Name Distribution of Kearney Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Kearney families
 262 - 521  88 - 261 |
 1 - 87  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Kearney families
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182 - 361 61 - 181 |
1 - 60 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kearney families
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77 - 151 26 - 76 |
1 - 25 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Kearney Family Origin
Kearney Immigration Information
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Kearney Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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