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dunbar Name Meaning and History

Scottish: habitational name from Dunbar, a place on the North Sea coast near Edinburgh, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’ + barr ‘top’, ‘summit’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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dunbar Family Facts

Distribution of dunbar Families in the US in 1920
Number of dunbar families
 160-318
 54-159		 1-53
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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