Durns Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 0
Buckinghamshire 0
Berkshire 0
Cambridgeshire 0
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 0
Cornwall 0
Cumberland 0
Derbyshire 0
Devon 0
Dorset 1
Durham 0
Essex 0
Gloucestershire 0
Hampshire 0
Herefordshire 0
Hertfordshire 0
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 0
Lancashire 1
Leicestershire 0
Lincolnshire 1
London 1
Middlesex 0
Northumberland 0
Norfolk 0
Northamptonshire 0
Nottinghamshire 0
Oxfordshire 0
Rutland 0
Shropshire 10
Suffolk 5
Somerset 0
Surrey 0
Sussex 0
Staffordshire 2
Warwickshire 0
Westmorland 0
Wiltshire 0
Worcestershire 0
Yorkshire 1

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 0
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 0
Denbighshire 0
Flintshire 0
Glamorgan 0
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 0
Pembrokeshire 0
Radnorshire 0

Durns Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Durns family

Profession Census Frequency
Scholar 4
Domestic Servant 2
Coal Miner 2
Blacksmith 1
General Servant 1
Brewer 1
General Domestic Servant 1
Boatswain 1
Cooper 1
Brickiln Labourer 1

Most Frequent Forenames for Durns

Name Census Frequency
Mary Durns 15
James Durns 13
John Durns 11
Sarah Durns 11
William Durns 11
Elizabeth Durns 7
Eliza Durns 6
Margaret Durns 5
Thomas Durns 5
Alexander Durns 4
Ann Durns 4
Levi Durns 4
Robert Durns 4
George Durns 3
Joseph Durns 3
Lucy Durns 3
Ada Durns 2
Agnes Durns 2
Alice Durns 2
Caroline Durns 2
Charles Durns 2
Ellen Durns 2
Florence Durns 2
Hannah Durns 2
Hilda Durns 2

Durns Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Darnes 67% 508
2 Dorans 67% 475
3 Dearns 67% 388
4 Dearnes 57% 199
5 Durns 100% 183
6 Darns 80% 123

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The surname Durns is the 5th most popular variant of Darnes.

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