Roan Family History
Roan Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: variant of Rowan .
Scottish: habitational name from any of various places in Scotland called Roan (Ayrshire, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire), or from Roan (Cumberland).
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rouen (Seine-Maritime). The medieval English name may have been reinforced by post-medieval French migrants.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Roana, of unexplained etymology.
Native American: from English roan ‘(horse) having a coat in which the prevailing color is thickly interspersed with some other color’, used as translation (and shortening) of a personal name based on a Native American word with this meaning (see Roanhorse ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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