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Buchanan - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Buchanan

[ 3 syll. buc-ha-nan, bu-chan-an ] The boy name Buchanan is pronounced as BYuwKAENahN KEY. Buchanan is mainly used in English and its language of origin is Irish Gaelic. Buchanan's meaning is house of the canon.

Buchanan is not widely used as a baby name for boys. It is not in the top 1000 names.

Baby names that sound like Buchanan include the Albanian Bashkimi, the Turkish Batuhan, the English Beacan, the Albanian Bekimi, the Albanian Besimi, the Albanian Bashkim, the Arabic Basim, the Arabic Bassam, the English, German, and Spanish Bastian, the English Bastion, the English Beagan, the English Becan, the Irish Beccan, the Albanian Bekim, the Albanian, Arabic, Slavic, and Turkish Besim, the Albanian Besin, and the Czech and Slavic Bojan.

KEY: Pronunciation for Buchanan: B as in "be (B.IY)" ; Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


 
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