as a Last Name
- 185,513
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Burns
Meaning & Origins
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).
| 132nd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 185,513
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Arkansas
- has the most people named Burns per capita
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