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cann Name Meaning and History

  1. Reduced form of Irish McCann.
  2. English: habitational name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna ‘can’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern England.
  3. Americanized spelling of Kann or Kahn.

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Distribution of cann Families in the US in 1920
Number of cann families
 54-105
 19-53
 1-18
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