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Question: Can the surname Allan be of Irish origin too!?
The surname Allan is more known to be of Scottish origin but can it be of Irish origin!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Surname: Allan
This interesting name is of Celtic origin, and derives from a personal name of great antiquity!. The name Alan, is thought to derive from the Gaelic "ailin", little rock, a diminutive of "ail", rock, and was introduced into England and later to Ireland by the Breton followers of William the Conqueror after 1066, among whom it was a very popular given name!. One man in particular is credited with being the first of the name into England; Alan Fergeant, Count of Brittany and a companion of the Conqueror, and later first Earl of Richmond in Yorkshire!. The personal name is recorded in its Latinized form of "Alanus" in the Domesday Book of 1086, although the surname is not recorded until the first half of the 13th Century (see below)!. The modern surname can be found in a variety of forms, including: Allen, Alen, Alleyn, Alleyne, Allain, Alan, Allan, Allin, Allon, Allans and FitzAlan!. Recordings from London Church Registers include the christening of William Alleyne at St!. Mary's, Whitechapel, on December 30th 1606!. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Geoffrey Alein, which was dated 1234, in the "Feet of Fines of Cambridgeshire", during the reign of King Henry 111, known as "The Frenchman", 1216 - 1272!. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation!. In England this was known as Poll Tax!. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling!.
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Allan: Last name origins & meanings:

English and Scottish: from a Celtic personal name of great antiquity and obscurity!. In England the personal name is now usually spelled Alan, the surname Allen; in Scotland the surname is more often Allan!. Various suggestions have been put forward regarding its origin; the most plausible is that it originally meant ‘little rock’!. Compare Gaelic ailín, diminutive of ail ‘rock’!. The present-day frequency of the surname Allen in England and Ireland is partly accounted for by the popularity of the personal name among Breton followers of William the Conqueror, by whom it was imported first to Britain and then to Ireland!. St!. Alan(us) was a 5th-century bishop of Quimper, who was a cult figure in medieval Brittany!. Another St!. Al(l)an was a Cornish or Breton saint of the 6th century, to whom a church in Cornwall is dedicated!.
This name was brought to North America from different parts of the British Isles independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries!. Prominent early bearers include Samuel Allen, who settled in Braintree, MA, about 1629 (died 1648 in Windsor, CT) and whose descendants included Ethan Allen (1737–89), leader of the Green Mountain Boys in VT during the Revolution; and William Allen (died 1725), from Dungannon, Ireland, an early Presbyterian settler in Philadelphia, whose descendants include William Allen (1803–79), governor of OH!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yeah I've heard that but then again most Irish people have some Scottish ancestory, point is it's a Celtic name though 'Allen' is actually it's Saxon form, but whatever all Celts are the same culture, we're kin whether Scottish or IrishWww@QuestionHome@Com