The burns Surname
burns Name Meaning and History
- Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or streams, from the Middle English nominative plural or genitive singular of burn (see Bourne).
- Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn ‘stream’ + house ‘house’.
- Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne).
- Jewish (American): Americanized and shortened form of Bernstein.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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