Where does the name Alloun come from?

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Where does the name Alloun come from?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I suspect you will need to research your specific family to find this answer, as the name may have been spelled differently in the past.

There is an Alloun family in Manchester England in the UK 1881 census. Bernard is listed as born in Kracow, Austria (now Poland) and Doris was born in Posen, German (also now Poland).

There is an Alloun family that arrived in New York City in 1830 from France.

There is one family in the 1910 USA census in Franklin, Pennsylvania who *may* be Alloun, but is also indexed as Ulbour. There are no index listings for "Alloun" in other USA censuses.