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Cann Name Meaning
Reduced form of Irish McCann.English: habitational
name from Cann, a place in Dorset, named from Old English canna
‘can’, used in the transferred sense of a deep valley, or a
topographic name from the same word used elsewhere in southwestern
England.Americanized spelling of
Kann or Kahn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Cann Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Cann families
 54 - 105  19 - 53 |
 1 - 18  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Cann families
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524 - 1,045 175 - 523 |
1 - 174 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Cann families
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7 - 11 3 - 6 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Cann Family Origin
Cann Immigration Information
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Cann Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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