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Updated August 7, 2024

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Girl name origins & meanings

  • Irish, Scottish : Dusky; dark-headed; dark; black

Girl name variations

Boy name origins & meanings

  • Celtic : Dark-skinned
  • Gaelic : Small and dark-skinned

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ciaráin ‘descendant of Ciarán’, a byname from a diminutive of ciar ‘dark’, ‘black-haired’. It was borne by two Irish saints, a hermit of the 5th century and the founder of the monastery at Clonmacnoise (d. 547).

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