Burns

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• 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.

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