At a Glance: Name: Dunstan – Meaning: hill stone – Origin: Old English – Gender: Boy – Pronunciation: DUN-stuhn
Dunstan is an Old English boy's name meaning “hill stone”. It appears in 4 of our baby name lists.
Meaning & Origin of Dunstan
Meaning: Hill stone.
Origin: Old English.
A common claim: Dark stone Actually: Often glossed as 'dark stone', but the more widely accepted derivation is Old English dun 'hill' + stan 'stone' -- i.e. 'hill stone' -- not the unrelated colour-word dunn 'dark, dun-coloured'.
Source: Wiktionary.
How to Pronounce Dunstan
Phonetic: DUN-stuhn IPA: /ˈdʌnstən/
Popularity of Dunstan
Dunstan doesn’t appear in U.S. Social Security birth records, which include every name given to at least five babies in a year — so it’s rare in the U.S.
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