Dunn

Boy name variations

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.