Burns Family History
Burns Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Burns Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Burns families
 1,755 - 3,507  586 - 1,754 |
 1 - 585  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Burns families
|
2,086 - 4,169 696 - 2,085 |
1 - 695 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Burns families
|
1,478 - 2,953 493 - 1,477 |
1 - 492 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Burns Family Origin
Burns Immigration Information
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Burns Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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