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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place so named in Renfrewshire or from a region called The Mearns, more or less co-extensive with Kincardineshire, named in Gaelic as an Mhaoirne, a derivative of maor ‘beadle’ (see Mair).

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