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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : variant spelling of Heron.
  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin ‘descendant of Earán’, a personal name from a diminutive of earadh ‘fear’, ‘dread’, ‘distrust’.
  • Spanish (Herrón) : unexplained.

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