Coan Family History
Coan Name Meaning
Irish: reduced form of McCoan, an Anglicized form of
Gaelic Mac Comhdhain or Mac Comhghain ‘son of
Comhdhan’, a personal name of unexplained meaning.Possibly an altered spelling of Jewish Cohen or German and
Jewish Kohn.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Coan
Name Distribution of Coan Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Coan families
 43 - 84  15 - 42 |
 1 - 14  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Coan families
|
30 - 58 11 - 29 |
1 - 10 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Coan families
|
10 - 17 4 - 9 |
1 - 3 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Coan census records
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Coan Family Origin
Coan Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Coan
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Coan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Coan census records
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Coan Civil War Service Records
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