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laughlin Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Lochlainn ‘descendant of Lochlann’, a personal name meaning ‘stranger’, originally a term denoting Scandinavia (a compound of loch ‘lake’, ‘fjord’ + lann ‘land’). Many Irish bearers of the name claim descent from Lochlann, a 10th century lord of Corcomroe, County Clare.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of laughlin Families in the US in 1920
Number of laughlin families
 172-341
 58-171		 1-57
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