The kan Surname

kan Name Meaning and History

Chinese : spelling variant of Jian.
Chinese : from the name of a place called Kan which existed during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc) in the state of Lu, in present-day Shandong province. Some residents adopted the place name as their surname.
Chinese : variant of Gan 1.
Czech (Kán): from kanit meaning ‘to slobber or slaver’ and by extension ‘to gossip’, hence a nickname for a gossip.
Czech: nickname from káne ‘buzzard’.
German: derivative of the personal name Konrad.
Jewish (Ashkenazic): one of the many forms of Cohen.
Dutch: from Middle Dutch kan(ne), can(ne) ‘tankard’, ‘flagon’, ‘pitcher’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of such vessels: a potter or a pewterer.
Reduced form of Dutch van de Kan: habitational name for someone from De Kan in Veurne or a place called Kanne.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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kan Family Facts

Distribution of kan Families in the US in 1920

Number of kan families

25-47

9-24

1-8

Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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