Can Family History
- Can Name Meaning
- Spanish: nickname from Spanish can, a synonym of perro ‘hound’. French: descriptive nickname for a gray-haired man, Latin canutus. Compare Canuel, Cano. Muslim: variant of Khan. Vietnamese: unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 362,508 Historical Documents with Can on Ancestry
- 260,889 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 22,690 Census and Voter Lists
- 69,906 Military Records
- 4,314 Immigration Records
- 4,709 Member Trees
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Number of Can families
 11 - 19  4 - 10 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Can families
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19 - 35 7 - 18 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Can 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
Can census records
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