Herron Family History
Herron Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Harome (North Yorkshire) from Old English (æt thǣm) hārum ‘at the (gray) stones’ dative plural of hār ‘gray stone’. English and Scottish: nickname probably for a tall thin man with long legs from Old French hairon ‘heron’ Anglo-Norman French heron Middle English heiroun heyron herne heron. Compare Hearn and Heron . English (of Norman origin): habitational name from (Le) Héron in France (Seine-Maritime). English: sometimes a variant of Hearn . Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEaráin ‘descendant of Earán’ a personal name from a diminutive of earadh ‘fear dread distrust’. Spanish (Herrón): probably a nickname from herrón a medieval game that required participants to hit an iron disk with a central hole in a nail driven into the ground.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022
