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Strachan

//stɹɔn// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO674922). countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname. countable, uncountable

Etymology

The village is named with Scottish Gaelic srath (“river valley”) + eachan (“foal”). The surname could either derive from the placename or from an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Sruitheáin (“descendant of Sruitheán”), a personal name from sruith (“sage elder”) + -án (“diminutive suffix”).

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