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canaan Name Meaning and History

  1. Jewish (American and Israeli): modern Hebrew name from Canaan, name of the promised land in the Bible. See also Kanaan.
  2. Irish: variant of Cannan.

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

Distribution of canaan Families in the US in 1920
Number of canaan families
 5-8
 2-4		 1
 0
Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 20 - Messages: 37
ThreadAuthorReplies
John Canaan m. Hannah Williams Betty 5
Isaac Canaan husband of Easter Ortwell daphnekenney 0
Emerita Canaan Nora Hertenstein 0
John Alonzo Canaan, b. 1852, IN Dawn 3
John and Hannah Williams Canaan betty 0
Stephen A and Elnore Clapham Canaan stephen zahn 0
John W. Canaan Sr. Dawn 0
James Albert Canaan, MO stephenzahn 2
John W Canaan, b. 1771 cannonfh11 4
Cora Canaan ronaldcanaan 0
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