Kernighan
English
Etymology
Variant of Kernaghan.
Proper noun
Kernighan (plural Kernighans)
- A surname from Irish.
Statistics
- According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Kernighan is the 79942nd most common surname in England, belonging to 27 individuals.
Derived terms
- Kernighan-Lin algorithm
- K&R
- Lin-Kernighan heuristic
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Kernighan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 295.
- Forebears