Dundas

Dundas

English

Etymology

The Scottish name is from Scottish Gaelic, from Old Irish dùn (“fort”) + deas (“south”), perhaps via Dundas Castle, while the places in Canada are named after Lord Melville, Henry Dundas, a Scottish politician and slavery proponent.

Proper noun

Dundas (countable and uncountable, plural Dundases)

1. (countable) A habitational surname from Scottish Gaelic.
2. A placename:
   1. Ellipsis of Dundas Street.; A street in Greater Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada
   2. A district and former town in Hamilton, Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Ontario, Canada.
   3. A number of places in the United States:
      1. A city in Rice County, Minnesota.
      2. An unincorporatedcommunity in Vinton County, Ohio.
      3. An unincorporatedcommunity in Lunenburg County, Virginia.
      4. An unincorporatedcommunity in Woodville, Calumet County, Wisconsin.
   4. A number of places in Australia:
      1. A suburb of Sydney, in the City of Parramatta, New South Wales.
      2. A rural locality in the Somerset Region of Queensland.
      3. A historical mininglocality near Zeehan, western Tasmania, where dundasite was discovered.
      4. An abandoned town in the Goldfields-Esperance Region of Western Australia.
      5. A local government area, Shire of Dundas, in the same region of Western Australia.

Derived terms

• dundasite
• Dundas Street
• North Dundas
• Port Dundas
• United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Dundas is the 18272^nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1520 individuals. Dundas is most common among White (75.92%) and Black/African American (12.83%) individuals.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Dundas”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 499.

Anagrams

• udands