Dunn

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UK/dʌn/UK[dɐn]

proper noun

A surname from Irish.

OriginIrish Ó Duinn →
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Meanings

proper nounDunn (countable and uncountable, plural Dunns)

plural Dunns · alternative Doyne · alternative Dunne

  1. countableuncountableA surname from Irish.

    In a statement posted on social media, Bondi said that the man, identified in court documents as 37-year-old Sean Charles Dunn, has since been fired. […] On Wednesday night, the FBI director, Kash Patel, said that Dunn had been charged with felony assault on a federal officer.

    2025 August 14, Anna Betts, “Alleged DC sandwich-thrower worked at justice department, attorney general says”, in The Guardian
  2. A number of places in the United States:
    1. countableuncountableA ghost town in Benton County, Indiana.
    2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri.
    3. countableuncountableA city in Harnett County, North Carolina.
    4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Scurry County, Texas.
    5. countableuncountableA town in Dane County, Wisconsin.
    6. countableuncountableA town in Dunn County, Wisconsin.

Origin

  1. IrishÓ Duinn“descendant of Donn”
  2. EnglishDunn

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

More words from Irish

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with Dunn

sunrunfundonenoneeveryonesonwongunbeguntondunnunbunGunnpunstuntonneundonererunshunmunthonoutrun
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Sounds the same

dunDonnDonnedoneDunne
Cite this entry
APA

Dunn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dunn

MLA

“Dunn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dunn. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dunn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dunn.

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