Last Name CONANT

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Meaning	The son of Conan, an early legendary name. No doubt more modern representatives of 'Conan' would be found in directories had not Conan as a surname got confused with the more ecclesiastical Cannon or Canon. The final 't' and 'd' in Conant and Conand are excrescences. As a personal name Conan lingered on till the close of the 15th century. It is also interesting to notice that in the two counties (York and Lincoln) where we find the personal name was once in use we see the surname flourishing to-day. 'Conan,' a river. 'Counant,' a cataract in North Wales, from 'cau,' a chasm, a deep hollow, shut up, and 'nant,' a rivulet.

Origin	English, Welsh and Gaelic, Jewish, Irish, Gaelic

Rank	6,095 (2000 US census)	6,556 (1990 US census)

Count	5,191 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.83%, or 4715 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
2.14%, or 111 total occurrences, as black,
0.69%, or 36 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.6%, or 31 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
2.37%, or 123 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
3.37%, or 175 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

How does one estimate/guess that number? The first source that comes to mind is the result of the latest available census. We know that 2000 year census presents us with a little over 150,000 unique surnames. The least po...

Longest last names

The 2000 USA census contains more than 150,000 surnames. The longest surnames contain 15 characters each. There are 23 names like that. There could be more of those last names in reality. Firstly because it has been 10+ years since the survey and we could have gotten...