English Explanatory Dictionary

Strachan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO674922).
  2. A surname.

Pronunciation

strôn /stɹɔːn/ /stɹɔn/ /stɹɑn/

Word forms

Strachan Strachans Strahan

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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