as a Last Name
- 73,836
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Buchanan
Meaning & Origins
Scottish: habitational name from Buchanan, a place near Loch Lomond, perhaps named with Gaelic buth chanain ‘house of the canon’.
| 444th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 73,836
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- North Carolina
- has the most people named Buchanan per capita
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