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canaan Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (American and Israeli): modern Hebrew name from Canaan, name of the promised land in the Bible. See also Kanaan.
  2. Irish: variant of Cannan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of canaan Families in the US in 1920
Number of canaan families
 5-8
 2-4
 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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