Ahern, also Aherne (Irish: Ó hEachtighearna/Ó hEachthairn, meaning "descendant of
Eachthighearna") is an Irish surname. Variants of the surname include Ahearn(e) and Hearn(e). There are 2718 people with the surname Ahern in Ireland, and 1404 people in the United Kingdom. The variant Aherne is borne by 1480 people in Ireland and 919 people in the United Kingdom.[1]
According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Ahernes were one of the chiefly families of the Dal gCais or Dalcassians who were a tribe of the Erainn who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland between about 500 and 100 BC.[2]
Notable people with the surname include:
^Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter (2016). The Oxford dictionary of family names in Britain and Ireland (First ed.). Oxford, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-19-879881-1.
^Cairney, C. Thomas (1989). Clans and Families of Ireland and Scotland. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States, and London: McFarland & Company. pp. 61–69. ISBN 0899503624.
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