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Trahan Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Trahan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Trahan families
 219 - 436  74 - 218 |
 1 - 73  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Trahan families
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8 - 14 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Trahan Family Origin
Trahan Immigration Information
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Trahan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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