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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Scottish : habitational name from a place in the parish of Banchory, Kincardineshire, which is first recorded in 1153 in the form Strateyhan, and is perhaps named from Gaelic srath ‘valley’ + eachain, genitive case of eachan ‘foal’. The pronunciation is traditionally ‘Strawn’.

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