Popularity of the last name by country
Canada
- Ontario (2,783)
- Québec (1,360)
- British Columbia (986)
- Prince Edward Island (785)
- Nova Scotia (745)
- New Brunswick (454)
- Alberta (264)
- Manitoba (251)
- Saskatchewan (93)
- Newfoundland and Labrador (27)
- Yukon (6)
All countries
- United States (180,356)
- United Kingdom (122,278)
- Ireland (65,895)
- New Zealand (21,441)
- Australia (20,327)
- Canada (10,536)
- France (5,237)
- Unknown country (2,301)
- Germany (899)
- Switzerland (497)
- Netherlands (493)
- Italy (475)
- Belgium (402)
- India (343)
- Spain (281)
- French Polynesia (253)
- Mexico (247)
- China (202)
- Colombia (200)
- Russian Federation (150)
- Argentina (135)
- Paraguay (117)
- Egypt (111)
- Austria (100)
- Poland (99)
- Turkey (96)
- South Africa (81)
- Greece (78)
- Denmark (72)
- Sweden (67)
- Norway (65)
- Portugal (63)
- Brazil (62)
- Cuba (58)
- Indonesia (58)
- Lebanon (51)
- Peru (48)
- Jamaica (46)
- Trinidad and Tobago (41)
- Malta (38)
Origine of last name
BURNS : 1: Scottish (central Scotland and northern England): habitational name from any of various places called formerly Burnis Burnes or Burnhouse (named with burn- ‘stream’) especially those in Kincardineshire Renfrewshire Dunbartonshire and possibly Argyll.2: English and Scottish: variant either of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Burn">Burn</a> with post-medieval excrescent -s or of <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barnes">Barnes</a>.3: Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Broin (see <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Byrne">Byrne</a>) with excrescent -s.4: American shortened and altered form of Jewish <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Bernstein">Bernstein</a>.
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