Last name: BUCHANAN
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BUCHANAN : This last name is indexed 279,300 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
BUCHANAN : 1: Scottish (western Scotland): habitational name from Buchanan in Stirlingshire perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.2: Irish: adopted for Ó Buadhachanáin see Bohannon.
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