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burns Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn ‘stream’ + house ‘house’.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne).
  4. 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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Distribution of burns Families in the US in 1920
Number of burns families
 1755-3507
 586-1754		 1-585
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Threads: 2890 - Messages: 5978
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Charles Ingham/Edward Burns wpetlock 0
L. F. Burns/GA married Sarah J Straughn in Arkansas pjhale51 2
James B Burns melvinb161 1
BURNS FAMILY OF PERRY-HAZARD KENTUCKY ANIMALZOO2 10
Mary Martha, Marion Burns, Barnhouse Susie Young 8
Obit; Robert L. Burns 1929-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
Burns in York Co., New Brunswick Canada SMB 0
Seeking John and Patrick Burns of 28th PVI, Co. E JoeNihen 0
JAMES BURNS beccapurington1998 0
Texas Burns Anthony R. Butcher 6
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