The buchanan Surname
buchanan Name Meaning and History
Scottish: habitational name from Buchanan, a place near Loch
Lomond, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the
canon’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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