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Mahan Name Meaning
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Macháin ‘descendant
of Machán’, which Woulfe suggests is a variant of
Mochán, a diminutive of moch ‘early’, itself a short
form of a name formed with this element, of which there are several,
and a variant of Mohan of Kilmacduagh in County Galway.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Mahan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mahan families
 125 - 248  42 - 124 |
 1 - 41  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mahan families
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17 - 32 6 - 16 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mahan families
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5 - 7 2 - 4 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mahan Family Origin
Mahan Immigration Information
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Mahan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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