Last name: MCLACHLAN
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MCLACHLAN : This last name is indexed 41,397 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MCLACHLAN : Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Lachlainn ‘son of Lachlann’ from the personal name Lachlann earlier Lochlann which means ‘stranger Norseman’ from a term denoting Scandinavia (possibly ‘land of lakes/fjords’). See also Laughlin and compare Irish McLaughlin.
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