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burns Name Meaning and History

  1. 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).
  2. Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn ‘stream’ + house ‘house’.
  3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne).
  4. 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
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Looking for my ancestors of the Burns Family Sarah_Forister 5
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