The calland Surname
calland Name Meaning and History
- English (Lancashire): unexplained; possibly a variant of Scottish and Irish Callan.
- 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’.
- 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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| Callands of Stalybridge,Cheshire. |
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| Samuel Calland of Pittsylvania, VA |
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