Dunn Family History

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Duinn Ó Doinn ‘descendant of Donn’ a byname meaning ‘brown-haired’ or ‘chieftain’. Compare Dunne. This name has sometimes been Anglicized as Brown.

English: nickname for a dark complexioned or swarthy man from Middle English dun ‘dun dark’ (Old English dunn ‘dull brown’).

Scottish: habitational name from Dun in Angus named with Gaelic dùn ‘fort’. Compare Dun.

German (Dünn): nickname for a thin slender person from Middle High German dünne ‘thin small slight weak’.

Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 鄧 see Deng.