Given name & surname
Dunn
“a brown-haired man”
Dunn is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a brown-haired man.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a brown-haired man.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1929. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dunn through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1929. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 194 as a first name in 2020; 137,243 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dunn’s family of names
Dunn has a related form in Dun. Dunn has a related form in Dune. Dunn has a related form in Dunne.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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