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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name for someone from Dundon, a place in Somerset, named from Old English dūn ‘hill’ + denu ‘valley’.
  • Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name, de Aunou (from a place in Orne, France) or de Auney, from any of various places named Aunay, for example in Calvados and Seine-et-Oise, France.

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