Doran Family History
- Doran Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Deoradháin ‘descendant of Deoradhán’, a byname representing a diminutive of deoradh ‘pilgrim’, ‘stranger’, ‘exile’. English: variant of Durant.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 743,163 Historical Documents with Doran on Ancestry
- 302,171 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 180,780 Census and Voter Lists
- 32,432 Military Records
- 36,964 Immigration Records
- 190,816 Member Trees
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Number of Doran families
 486 - 969  163 - 485 |
 1 - 162  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Doran families
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90 - 178 31 - 89 |
1 - 30 |
from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Doran 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
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