Drain Family History
Drain Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Dreain
‘descendant of Drean’, a byname possibly from dreán
‘wren’. The name is also found in Scotland.Irish (Cork): reduced
Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Druacháin (see
Drohan).English: from Middle English dreine
‘drain’, ‘ditch’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a ditch
digger or a topographic name.English: variant spelling of
Drane.French: reduced form of Derain, from Old
French dererain ‘last’, hence a nickname for the youngest son
of a family.French: habitational name from a place in
Maine-et-Loire called Drain.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Drain Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Drain families
 70 - 137  24 - 69 |
 1 - 23  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Drain families
|
26 - 49 9 - 25 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Drain census records
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Drain Family Origin
Drain Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Drain Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Drain census records
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