What is the origin of the name 'Sloan'?

I'm Scottish but I know that this name isn't. I've heard that it might be a contraction of a Polish name 'Sloanimski' or 'Slonimski.' Do you know any different?

What is the origin of the name 'Sloan'?
I'm not a coat of arms peddler, as someone may think, but I think you get such a lot of information about surnames on this site. Have a look at it anyway, it wont cost anything will it.


http://www.houseofnames.com/fc.asp?sId=%26amp;...


My two links have conflicting information, but I believe it's Scottish.


http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/fact... hope this helps.
Reply:see the links below to the National Genealogical Society and the UK college of arms. I am furnishing them for educational purposes only.





http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/comconsumerp...





http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.ht...





Ancestry.Com shows 332 Sloan immigrants listed their place of origin as Ireland





131 England





110 Scotland





34 Great Britain





7 Germany





4 Ireland and Great Britain





The same surname can come from many different counties and names frequently were anglicized when people immigrated to English speaking countries.





The best way to know your heritage is to trace your ancestry starting with your parents and working back one generation at a time. Anytime you wish to do this there are plenty of people on this board that can give you some great ideas. Just ask.
Reply:my mom's maiden name is sloan. and she says it's dutch
Reply:I've heard it's Irish, derived from an angelicized Gaelic name.
Reply:Origin:


Meaning: American English


Fighter





Origin:


Meaning: Gaelic


Traveller; raid
Reply:I don't know the origin of the ancestory of the name, Sloan,


but I am kin to a Claude Sloan, jr. who lived in Oklahoma,


where many of the Jones lived, and where many Sloan


families have lived, during the Oklahoma Indian Territory


Days, and since the Founding of the Oklahoma State.


In fact several families of the Sloan People, live in this part


of Eastern Oklahoma.


I, too, would like to have contact with Sloan family People.


There are many ways the name "Sloan" can be spelled...


''Seloane", for one., and Celoane, for another spelling.


It is always good to search the history of the Thirteen Colonies and esp. Virginia, Massachusetts and North Carolina.


I found much information, on the ''early immigrants'' from the


history of those states.


If you can find where the ''ports of entry'' were in the 1600's


and 1700's, this should give the ''origins'' of the many people


who came from Foreign Countries, to a Land of Freedom.


People of years ago, on census records and in family bibles


wrote names, according to the ''Sounds'' of the words.


Some names came from occupations, of the people, and


other names, are from locations, in foreign lands, such as


the "Parker name". it is from the fact, that they were "Deer


Park Keepers" in England and other locations there. Their


last name, was the name of the Island where the Deer were,


Such as the Name of Peter de Cote Alcan...meaning from


the Coast of Alcan. (one of my ancestor's from the late 1500's) in England.
Reply:sloan


Irish: reduced Anglicized form of 脫 Sluaghadh谩in 鈥榙escendant of Sluaghadh谩n鈥? a diminutive the Gaelic personal name Sluaghadh (see Slowey).