Straughan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Person from Strachan, Aberdeenshire; perhaps 'valley of the foals'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈstɹɔən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Straughan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Person from Strachan, Aberdeenshire; perhaps 'valley of the foals'.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Straughan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | — | 925 | — |
| ES Spain | — | 6 | — |
| BB Barbados | — | 2 | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jane Straughanb. 1913USUnited States Air Force personnel
- Jeanette Straughanb. 1922USAmerican botanist and botanical collector (1922 -2013)
- Brian Straughanb. 1947GBEnglish mathematical engineer
- Peter Straughanb. 1968GBEnglish dramatist, screenwriter and short-story writer (born 1968)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.3K | #5,401 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 925 | #26,391 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 865 | #29,168 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 853 | #26,807 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 2 | #36 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Straughan mean, and where does it come from?
- Person from Strachan, Aberdeenshire; perhaps 'valley of the foals'. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce Straughan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈstɹɔən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Straughan have the most bearers?
- Straughan is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom.
What do you want to know about Straughan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/straughanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Straughan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.