Last name: SLOAN
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SLOAN : This last name is indexed 115,044 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
SLOAN : Irish (Down and Antrim) and Scottish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Sluaghadháin ‘descendant of Sluaghadhán’ a diminutive of the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadh ‘raider’. Compare Slowey.
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