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Updated June 9, 2019

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Celtic : Warrior
  • Gaelic : Dark

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Céirín ‘descendant of Céirín’, a personal name from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black’. English patronymic -s has been added superfluously.

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