Updated June 9, 2019

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Boy name origins & meanings

  • English : Brown

Boy name variations

Dunne

Dunne

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Dun

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Dune

Dune

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Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn, Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’, a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’.
  • English : nickname for a man with dark hair or a swarthy complexion, from Middle English dunn ‘dark-colored’.
  • Scottish : habitational name from Dun in Angus, named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’.
  • Scottish : nickname from Gaelic donn ‘brown’. Compare 1.