Etymology

Dunne

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Today it means: A surname from Irish. Full definition →

Irish Ó Duinn
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The story

  1. Irish · derived fromÓ Duinn“descendant of Duinn”
  2. English todayDunne

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Duinn (“descendant of Duinn”), a byname from donn (“brown”).

Words from the same roots

IrishÓ Duinn all →

Dunn

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.