Chan

Family name origins & meanings

• Chinese : Cantonese variant of Chen.
• Chinese : variant transcription of Zhan.
• Vietnamese (Chân) : unexplained.
• Galician and Portuguese : topographic name from a field named Chan (Galician) or Chã (Portuguese), from Latin plana ‘level’, ‘flat’.

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