Burns Name Meaning. 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). Scottish: variant of Burnhouse, habitational name from a place named with burn 'stream' + house 'house'.
English: of uncertain origin. Reaney explains this as a nickname for a person who is difficult to shake off, from Middle English bur(r) 'bur' (a seedhead that sticks to clothing). Burre occurs as a surname or byname as early as 1185, but the vocabulary word is not recorded in OED until the 14th century.
English, Scottish, and northern Irish: probably a metonymic occupational name for someone who made or sold coarse woolen cloth, Middle English burel or borel (from Old French burel, a diminutive of b(o)ure); the same word was used adjectively in the sense 'reddish brown' and may have been applied as a nickname ...
The name Burris was brought to England in the wave of migration that followed the Norman Conquest of 1066. The Burris family lived in Hampshire. The name was given to settlements located near a hill, and is from the Old English beorg, which means hill.
Burson Name Meaning. English: unexplained; apparently a patronymic, but from an unidentified medieval personal name. It may be a variant of Barson.
The name Burt is an English baby name. In English the meaning of the name Burt is: Derived from the Old English 'beorht' meaning bright, glorious. Also used as a name derived from the surname and place name Burton, meaning fortified enclosure. Famous bearers: American actors Burt Lancaster and Burt Reynolds.
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Burton Name Meaning. English: habitational name from a place name that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh 'fort' (see Burke) + tun 'enclosure', 'settlement'.
The name Burtt came to England with the ancestors of the Burtt family in the Norman Conquest of 1066. It comes from the Norman personal name and was originally spelled Berte. That name is derived from the word berht, which means light.
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