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The calland Surname

calland Name Meaning and History

  1. English (Lancashire): unexplained; possibly a variant of Scottish and Irish Callan.
  2. French: metonymic occupational name for someone who owned or sailed a large cargo vessel, from a Picard or southern French variant of Old French chaland ‘large cargo vessel’.
  3. Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads in Agder and Vestlandet named Kalland or Kaland, generally from Old Norse Kalfaland, a compound of kalfr ‘calf’ + land ‘(piece of) land’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of calland Families in the US in 1920
Number of calland families
 16-29
 6-15
 1-5
 0
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