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kan Name Meaning and History

  1. Chinese : spelling variant of Jian.
  2. Chinese : from the name of a place called Kan which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc) in the state of Lu, in present-day Shandong province. Some residents adopted the place name as their surname.
  3. Chinese : variant of Gan 1.
  4. Czech (Kán): from kanit meaning ‘to slobber or slaver’ and by extension ‘to gossip’, hence a nickname for a gossip.
  5. Czech: nickname from káne ‘buzzard’.
  6. German: derivative of the personal name Konrad.
  7. Jewish (Ashkenazic): one of the many forms of Cohen.
  8. Dutch: from Middle Dutch kan(ne), can(ne) ‘tankard’, ‘flagon’, ‘pitcher’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such vessels: a potter or a pewterer.
  9. Reduced form of Dutch van de Kan: habitational name for someone from De Kan in Veurne or a place called Kanne.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kan Families in the US in 1920
Number of kan families
 25-47
 9-24		 1-8
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KAN Lana Ashlee 1967 1998 t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
KAN Brandon R 1970 2003 In our hearts forever t42Hilltop_DalCoTX 0
nola kann barry_lucas22 0
KAN_E_S_1901-1930.JPG t42Moore 0
Sims family search 1947wolfe 1
Family name of Kreutzer and Lauber 1947wolfe 6
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