Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Mearns
“bailiff, steward, beadle”
Mearns is a surname from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Pictish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mearns goes back to a word meaning “bailiff, steward, beadle.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Mearns comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Pictish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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