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gann Name Meaning and History

  1. Irish: reduced form of McGann.
  2. German: from the personal name Gano, or, in Austria, a short form of Candidus, a personal name from Latin candidus ‘bright’, ‘white’, ‘clear’, ‘beautiful’ (see Kann).
  3. German: topographic name for someone who lived near an expanse of scree, Middle High German gant.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the gann family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of gann Families in the US in 1920
Number of gann families
 63-124
 22-62		 1-21
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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