Cairns

name

Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.

1. A surname from Scots or Irish; variant forms Carnes, Carns.
2. A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.
3. A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.

noun

1. plural of cairn