Burns

See also: burns

English

As a Scottish surname, from several places such as Burnis, Burnes, Burnhouse, containing the noun burn (“stream”).
As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Burn or Barnes.
As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Broin, see Byrne.
As a Jewish surname, Americanized and shortened from Bernstein.

Burns (countable and uncountable, plural Burnses or Burns)

A surname.
- 2025 May 30, Rebecca Santana and Jonathan Lloyd, “These California cities and counties are on the DHS list of ‘sanctuary jurisdictions'”, in KNBC‎^[1]:
  We adopted a formal policy on this," Mayor Pat Burns said. "It went before the council, and we unanimously agreed that Huntington Beach is not a sanctuary city. We took deliberate action to make our non-sanctuary stance clear."
1. Robert Burns, Scottish writer.
A place in the United States:
1. An unincorporated community in Eagle County, Colorado.
2. A city in Marion County, Kansas.
3. A township in Henry County, Illinois.
4. A township in Shiawassee County, Michigan.
5. An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
6. A town in Alleghany County, New York.
7. A city, the county seat of Harney County, Oregon.
8. A town in Dickson County, Tennessee.
9. A town in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.
10. A town in Laramie County, Wyoming.

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