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dunn Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’.
  2. English: nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Middle English dunn ‘dark-colored’.
  3. Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’.
  4. Scottish: nickname from Gaelic donn ‘brown’. Compare 1.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The dunn name in History

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Distribution of dunn Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunn families
 1324-2646
 442-1323		 1-441
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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