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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish and northern Irish (Counties Leitrim and Fermanagh) : habitational name from Dundas, a place near Edinburgh, Scotland, which is named from Gaelic dùn ‘hill’ (compare Down 1) + deas ‘south’.

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