The kanaan Surname

kanaan Name Meaning and History

Arabic: from a personal name based on kan?an ‘beauty’, or from a personal name bestowed with reference to the land of Canaan in the Bible.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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Distribution of kanaan Families in the US in 1920

Number of kanaan families

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