The burns Surname

burns Name Meaning and History

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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burns Family Facts

Distribution of burns Families in the US in 1920

Number of burns families

1755-3507

586-1754

1-585

Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Looking for my ancestors of the Burns Family	Sarah_Forister	5
Conrad Burns	CaroleeSommers21	6
Robert Burns 1790 census	richb888	0
BURNS m CLOUD BEFORE 1750S	FlJeeper	0
Burns in Springfield, OHIO	Marlene2012	0
Essie or Esther Burns	alto314	0
Elizabeth Burns	mattson196	2
Looking for Mary Louise Burns	Bullock15	0
Daniel & Catharine Burns	rjburns99	0
BURNS OF PHILADELPHIA, PA	JohnnyMack1983	0

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