Last Name ALLAN

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Meaning The son of Alan, Allen, or Aleyn.
From aluinn, fair, handsome.
Derived, according to Julius Scaliger, from the Sclavonic Aland, a wolf-dog, a hound, and Chaucer uses 'Aland' in the same sense. Bailey derives it as the same from the British. Camden thinks it a corruption of 'Aelianus,' which signifies sun-bright. From the same we have Allen, Allin, Alleyne. In the Gaelic, 'Aluinn' signifies exceedingly fair, handsome, elegant, lovely; Irish, 'Alun,' fair, beautiful.
Origin English, Scottish, Arabic, Irish, Lebanese, Falkland, Zimbabwean, Kenyan

Rank 3,090 (2000 US census) 3,727 (1990 US census)
Count 10,746 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 87.42%, or 9394 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 6.4%, or 688 total occurrences, as black,
  • 1.07%, or 115 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.8%, or 86 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 2.29%, or 246 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.02%, or 217 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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