Etymology

Kiernan

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Irish Tighearnán
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  1. Irish · derived fromTighearnán
  2. English todayKiernan

From Irish Tighearnán, from Tighearna (“lord”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.