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Cherin f. Of uncertain origin.

Cherin was the name of a legendary king of the Britons in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, likely related to Irish Ciaran, but this seems an unlikely source for Cherin as a feminine name.

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● 1585 Cherin DEmar-vol2 p. 11
Cite as: J. Uckelman, S.L. Uckelman. "Cherin". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2015, no. 2. http://dmnes.org/2015/2/name/Cherin.