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The vaughan Surname

vaughan Name Meaning and History

Welsh: from fychan, a lenited form of bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’. This was often used to distinguish the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, typically the son of a father with the same name.

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

Distribution of vaughan Families in the US in 1920
Number of vaughan families
 266-530
 89-265		 1-88
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Compiled by Ancestry.co.uk from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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