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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. English: variant spelling of Heron.
  2. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin ‘descendant of Earán’, a personal name from a diminutive of earadh ‘fear’, ‘dread’, ‘distrust’.
  3. Spanish (Herrón): unexplained.

This name appears in the following lists: First Ladies, Presidents' Kids