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dunlop Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish: habitational name a place near Kilmarnock named Dunlop, from Gaelic dùn ‘fort’ + possibly lápach ‘muddy’. The traditional pronunciation places the stress on the second syllable, although nowadays it is usually placed on the first.
  2. Irish: variant of Dunleavy.
  3. Irish: Scottish surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Lapáin ‘descendant of Lapán’, a byname or from lápán ‘mire’, ‘dirt’ (used figuratively of a poor man) or ‘little paw’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of dunlop Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunlop families
 69-135
 24-68		 1-23
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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