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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Southern English : topographic name for someone who lived in an area of downland (the rolling chalk hills of Sussex, Surrey, and Kent), from Old English dūn ‘down’, ‘low hill’ (of Celtic origin) + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant. Dun is a common element of English place names.
  • Irish : variant of Dooner 2.

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