Where Does the McLane Surname Come From?

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What McLane means

McLane is a familiar spelling of the Irish name McLain. The family name meaning is “The son of the servant of St. John”, the same as for McLain.

Records show McLane as one of the forms McLain took over time. Regional accents shaped spellings long before dictionaries fixed them. In the 2010 US Census, 5,640 Americans gave McLane as their last name (rank 6,077). That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: MacLaine, McLean and Maclean.

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