Pelan Surname

Pelan, is a very rare surname

Surname

A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...

 with independent origins. The name has also been lent to subjects directly or indirectly associated with individuals bearing that surname.
The three geographical origins of the surname are France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Ireland

Ireland

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 and Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

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.

In Ireland, Pelan thought to be a variant or corruption of the common surname Phelan

Phelan (surname)

Phelan is an Irish surname, one of the two most common anglicisations of the Irish surname Ó Faoláin . The name is commonly seen in the south-east of Ireland, particularly counties Waterford and Kilkenny.The usual pronunciation is "Fee-lan", but in some parts of Kilkenny there is also use of...

 and is found largely in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland

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, and historically in County Down

County Down

-Cities:*Belfast *Newry -Large towns:*Dundonald*Newtownards*Bangor-Medium towns:...

 and County Antrim

County Antrim

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. There are also theories that it is of Huguenot

Huguenot

The Huguenots were members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France during the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the 17th century, people who formerly would have been called Huguenots have instead simply been called French Protestants, a title suggested by their German co-religionists, the...

 origin and/or possibly related to the Breton

Breton language

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany , France. Breton is a Brythonic language, descended from the Celtic British language brought from Great Britain to Armorica by migrating Britons during the Early Middle Ages. Like the other Brythonic languages, Welsh and Cornish, it is classified as...

 surname Pellan http://www.geneaguide.com/onomastique/onomastique-pellan.htm.

In Eastern Europe, Pelan is a Czech or Slovakian surname (sometimes written as Pélan).

This surname has spread to adjacent geographical areas and also to the New World

New World

The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically America and sometimes Oceania . The term originated in the late 15th century, when America had been recently discovered by European explorers, expanding the geographical horizon of the people of the European middle...

 with widespread migration in the 19th century.

Associated Uses

• Pelan Township, Minnesota
  Pelan Township, Minnesota
  Pelan Township is a township in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 61 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 35.6 square miles , all of it land.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 61...
  
  , settled in 1880 by Charles Pelan from England.

• Pelan is also a National Cooperative Soil Survey
  National Cooperative Soil Survey
  The National Cooperative Soil Survey in the United States is a nation-wide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions...
  
   soil series
  Soil series
  Soil series as established by the National Cooperative Soil Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service are a level of classification in the USDA Soil Taxonomy classification system hierarchy. The actual object of classification is the so-called...
  
  found only in northwestern Minnesota. Its taxonomic class is: Loamy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, frigid Oxyaquic Hapludalfs.

External links

• The Pelan Monument, Lambeg Churchyard, Lambeg, Northern Ireland
• "The Life of Samuel Pelan", letter from 1851.
• Study of the surname Pellan (in French), suggested links with Pelan.
• 'Pelan Green' Facial Scrub
• Chateau Pelan wine from Bordeaux.
• NRCS Soil Series description.
• Pelan Y-DNA Surname Project