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Last name origins & meanings:

1. Scottish and northern English: topographic name for someone who lived by a stream or streams, from the Middle English nominative plural or genitive singular of burn (see Bourne).
2. Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn ‘stream’ + house ‘house’.
3. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see Byrne).
4. Jewish (American): Americanized and shortened form of Bernstein.

Famous people with this last name: Ed Burns

This name appears in the following lists: Alliterative Names