Cairns.
A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns.
Meaning & usage
A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns.
A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.
A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.
Where this word comes from
* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.
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