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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Czech (Hulán) : occupational name for an uhlan (a member of a cavalry regiment armed with a lance), a word ultimately derived from Turkish uğlan ‘servant’, ‘young man’.
  • Probably also a variant of French Hulin.

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