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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from either of two places in East Anglia, one in Norfolk and the other in Suffolk, both named with the Old Norse personal name Gunni (see Gunn 1) + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.

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