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trahan Name Meaning and History

Altered or variant form of French Trahand, a metonymic occupational name for a silkworker who drew out the thread from the cocoons, from a derivative of traire ‘to draw or stretch’. It has been ‘translated’ into English as Strong.

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Distribution of trahan Families in the US in 1920
Number of trahan families
 219-436
 74-218
 1-73
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