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buchan Name Meaning and History

Scottish: regional name from a district north of Aberdeen. There was also a barony of Buchquane in Strathore, Fife, a settlement called Buchan in Kirkcudbrightshire, and several other places in Scotland so named, but these are less likely to be the source of the surname.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of buchan Families in the US in 1920
Number of buchan families
 23-44
 8-22		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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John Buchan Scotland Libby 1
THOMAS JEFFERSON BUCHAN SCARLETTEMARIE 1
David Buchan and Flora McLachlan, Janet Buchan and John McLachlan Marilyn Laing Zimmer 7
Jun 4 Reunion in Georgia Greg Buchan 7
Buchan Surname Forum dcb11 2
Buchan history Mike Brown 41
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Catherine Brown Buchan Joseph_Cercy 3
JOHN BEVERLY ALLEN BUCHAN glenda buchan-mccall 4
peter buchan ballad collector b 1791. typhoon15 3
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