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Dictionary of
Family Names
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Origin and Etymology of the Surname ALLEN,
ALLEINE, ALLEYNE, ALLAN, ALLIN, ALLAND.
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From
A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, by C. W. E. Bardsley,
A. Bardsley, 1901, and,
History of
Christian
Names,
by Charlotte Yonge, 1884,
and, An Etymological
Dictionary of Family and Christian Names, by William Arthur, M. A.,
1857.
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ALLEN, ALLEINE, ALLEYNE,
ALLAN, ALLIN, ALLAND.
Bardsley has: A baptismal name meaning "the son of Alan," or
"Allen," or "Aleyn": Yonge, i. 396-7. (The
d in Alland is an excrescence as in Simmonds.)
One of our most popular names while surnames were becoming hereditary; said to
have come into England with Alan Fergeant, Count of Brittany, a companion of the
Conqueror, and first Earl of Richmond, co. York. Very soon common to
north England and the Scottish border. For
Alan, Allan, and its other variants, Arthur
has: Derived, according to Julius Scaliger, from the Sclavonic Aland,
a wolf-dog, a hound, and Chaucer uses Aland in the same
sense. Bailey derives it as the same from the British. Camden thinks it is
a corruption of Ælianus, which signifies sun-bright. From the same we
have Allen, Allin, Alleyne. In the Gaelic, Aluinn signifies exceedingly
fair, handsome, elegant, lovely; Irish, Alun, fair, beautiful.
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Dictionary Index |
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C, D, E,
F, G, H,
I, J, K,
L, M, N,
O, P, Q,
R, S, T,
U, V, W,
X, Y, Z
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