Kazan Family History
Kazan Name Meaning
Turkish Ukrainian Belorussian and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): nickname metonymic occupational name or ornamental (artificial) name from Turkish kazan ‘cauldron big soup-kettle’ which is also a loanword in East Slavic languages. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Hebrew ḥazan an occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue. American shortened form of Greek Kazantzis (or of its patronymic derivatives e.g. Kazantzakis Kazantzoglou): occupational name for a maker of cauldrons or for someone who used a cauldron for the distillation of ouzo or raki from Turkish kazancı ‘cauldron-maker’ from kazan ‘cauldron’ + the agent noun suffix -cı.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022