Dunn Family History
Dunn Name Meaning
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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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Dunn
Name Distribution of Dunn Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Dunn families
 1,399 - 2,796  467 - 1,398 |
 1 - 466  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dunn families
|
841 - 1,679 281 - 840 |
1 - 280 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dunn census records
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Dunn Family Origin
Dunn Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Dunn Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Dunn Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Dunn census records
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Military Service by Dunn
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