Belan Family History
- Belan Name Meaning
- Croatian and Serbian: nickname for someone with white or very fair hair or a pale complexion, from bijel, beo ‘white’. Czech (Belán) and Slovak (Belán): nickname from Czech bílý , Slovak biely ‘white’, or derivative of the female personal name Bela (see Belin). French (Bélan): unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 31,140 Historical Documents with Belan on Ancestry
- 20,784 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,416 Census and Voter Lists
- 661 Military Records
- 1,251 Immigration Records
- 5,028 Member Trees
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Number of Belan families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Belan families
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13 - 23 5 - 12 |
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Belan census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
Belan census records
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