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Surname Etymology and Meaning of DUNNING

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The brown offspring, from the Saxon Dunn, brown, and the termination ing, which, among the Saxons, signified offspring, as White-ing, the fair offspring, Cuth-ing, the son of Cuth. Dunning has retained its original orthography since the days of the Saxons.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).