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Strachan
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Origin Of The Surname Strachan
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Meaning Of The Surname Strachan
From the Town by the Valley of Horses
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Interesting
Facts About
Strachan
Strachan is a locational surname coming from any of the places so-called or similarly spelled across Britain. Locational surnames were traditionally given to someone who had moved away to a new area, whereby they were assigned the name of their original home as a surname to differentiate them from the other townspeople. The place name itself comes from the Gaelic ‘stath’ which meant valley, combined with ‘eachain’ to mean ‘Valley of Horses’. Places with this name would originally have had a valley lived in by wild horses. |
Strachan Statistics
Strachan is the number 1243 ranked surname in the United Kingdom.
According to our statistics around 8,114 share the surname Strachan in the UK.
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