Last name: BURNS
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Last name frequency
BURNS : This last name is indexed 653,578 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BURNS : Local. A bum, in Scotland, is a small stream, the same as Bourne. Biorn, in the Danish and Swedish, signifies a bear, figuratively, a ferocious, valiant man.
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