Last Name BURNS

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Meaning	Local: At the burn, i.e. stream. More especially parishes in counties Cambridge, Lincoln, and Hants. Local: At the burn. Local: A 'burn,' in Scotland, is a small stream, the same as 'Bourne.' 'Biorn,' in the Danish and Swedish, signifies a bear, figuratively, a ferocious, valiant man. The surname is derived from Scottish Burness.

Origin	English, Scottish, Irish, Jewish, Native American, Falkland, Hungarian, Pakistani

Rank	141 (2000 US census)	142 (1990 US census)

Count	162,153 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

82.18%, or 133257 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
13.63%, or 22101 total occurrences, as black,
0.45%, or 730 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.71%, or 1151 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.45%, or 2351 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
1.59%, or 2578 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

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