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drain Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dreain ‘descendant of Drean’, a byname possibly from dreán ‘wren’. The name is also found in Scotland.
  2. Irish (Cork): reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Druacháin (see Drohan).
  3. English: from Middle English dreine ‘drain’, ‘ditch’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a ditch digger or a topographic name.
  4. English: variant spelling of Drane.
  5. French: reduced form of Derain, from Old French dererain ‘last’, hence a nickname for the youngest son of a family.
  6. French: habitational name from a place in Maine-et-Loire called Drain.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of drain Families in the US in 1920
Number of drain families
 22-41
 8-21		 1-7
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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