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Surname Etymology and Meaning of ALAN

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Is thought by Julius Scaliger to signify a hound in the Sclavonian, and Chaucer uses Aland in the same sense.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).

English and Scottish: variant spelling of Allen. This is the usual spelling of the personal name in England and Scotland, but is infrequent as a surname.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)