The dunn Surname

dunn Name Meaning and History

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

Distribution of dunn Families in the US in 1920

Number of dunn families

1324-2646

442-1323

1-441

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Thread	Author	Replies
DUNN, Thos. of Wrawby, Engld & NY	Bruce Dunn	8
Lottie Dunn- Dunn family in North Carolina and Tennessee	cdeesham	2
"Dunn Diggers"	Elizabeth Dalton	2
Andrew Dunn abt: 1805 Ireland	Jdy1961	2
Mary Alice Dunn	kwilso4	2
Jonas Dunn for Kris Lehman	tommydots	0
Joseph Perry Dunn	DustStorm21	1
Dunn's from Windber, PA	Monica McAllister	1
Daniel Dunn	DEBORAHFORREST80	2
John Dunn *CONFUSED*	Manasseh291082	1

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