Dunmore
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Anglicized form of Irish and Scottish Gaelic dùn (“fortress, fort, stronghold”) + mòr (“big, large, great”).
Proper noun
[edit]Dunmore (countable and uncountable, plural Dunmores)
- A placename:
- A village in Airth parish, Falkirk council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS891893).
- A town in County Galway, Ireland.
- A hamlet in Cypress County, Alberta, Canada.
- A borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.
- A habitational surname.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dunmore is the 18703rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1469 individuals. Dunmore is most common among Black/African American (68.75%) and White (24.37%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dunmore”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 499.
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- English terms derived from Irish
- English terms derived from Scottish Gaelic
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Villages in Falkirk, Scotland
- en:Villages in Scotland
- en:Places in Falkirk, Scotland
- en:Places in Scotland
- en:Towns in County Galway, Ireland
- en:Towns in Ireland
- en:Places in County Galway, Ireland
- en:Places in Ireland
- en:Villages in Alberta
- en:Villages in Canada
- en:Places in Alberta
- en:Places in Canada
- en:Boroughs in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in Pennsylvania, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in West Virginia, USA
- English surnames
- English surnames from Irish
- English surnames from Scottish Gaelic