Ciarán

KEER-aun
Gaelic
"little black-haired one"

Ciarán Origin and Meaning

The name Ciarán is a boy's name of Gaelic, Irish origin meaning "little black-haired one".

Long popular in Ireland and England, Ciarán is the name of Ireland's first-born saint and twenty-five other saints. While this is the authentic Irish spelling, it is more familiar in the US in the Anglicized Kieran spelling.