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The callan Surname

callan Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Cathaláin ‘descendant of Cathalán’, a personal name representing a diminutive of Cathal (see Cahill).
  2. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Ailin, a patronymic from an old Gaelic personal name derived from ail ‘rock’.
  3. Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cailin ‘son of Cailin’ (see Collin).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of callan Families in the US in 1920
Number of callan families
 117-232
 40-116		 1-39
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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