Buchanan is a Jewish surname?

Question

And Domijan?

Answer 1

Buchannon is Irish/Scottish

Pronouce it as Buke Hannan

The other one I have never seen

Answer 2

This long-established and distinguished surname, having no less than seventeen Coats or Arms, and with several notable entries in the "Dictionary of National Biography", is of Old Scottish origin, and is a locational name from the district of Buchanan north west of Drymen in Stirlingshire, so called from the Gaelic "buth", house, and "Chanain", of the canon. This placename was first taken as a surname in the 13th Century by the head of a cadet branch of the clan McAuslan, their name being a patronymic form of "Absalon, Absolon", Anglo-French forms of the Hebrew personal name "Avshalam", composed of the elements "av", father, and "shalom", peace. In 1208, Absalon or Absalone, son of Macbethe, witnessed the gift of the Church of Campsie by Alewin, second earl of Lennox, and in 1225, he was granted a charter of the island called Clarines (Clarinch in Loch Lomond, later the gathering place of Clan Buchanan). Alan de Buchanan, witness, was recorded in the Levenax Charters, circa 1270, and Walter de Buchanan, noted in the same charter, had a grant of Auchmar in 1373. Maurice Buchanan acted as treasurer to Princess Margaret, wife of the Dauphin of France (afterwards Louis X1), and George Buchanan (1506 - 1582) was a historian and Latin scholar of European fame. The Coat of Arms most associated with this great family is a gold shield with a black lion rampant within a double tressure flory counterflory gules. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Absalone de Buchkanan, who witnessed Earl Maldowen's charter to Sir Robert Herthford, which was dated circa 1224, in the "Register of the Monastery of Paisley", Renfrewshire, during the reign of King Alexander 11 of Scotland, 1214 - 1249.

http://www.surnamedb.com/surname.aspx?na...

Domijan is prevalent throughout Eastern Europe, I cannot pin-point it's origin, but I think it is possibly Slovenian.

Answer 3

Any name can be Jewish.  When surnames were taken or assigned Jews took the same surnames as non Jews based on their occupation, where they lived, being the son of someone, some characteristic about them.  Remember most people in Europe did not have a surname until the last melennium.

A lot of names in the U.S. are viewed as Jewish as a large portion of the immigrants with some particular names were Jewish while back in their home countries the same name was used by Jews and non Jews alike.

Also, Orthodox and Conservative Judaism defines a Jew by the mother not the father.  They state they get the nation from the mother and the tribe from the father.  If they don't have a Jewish father they belong to the tribe of the nearest male relative on the mother's side of the family. The word "tribe" does not necessarily mean one of the 12 tribes of Israel mentioned in the Old Testament.

They state if a person doesn't have a Jewish mother, the only way they can be considered a Jew is for them to convert to Judaism.

Reform Jews view it differently.

Answer 4

Buchanan is Scottish and Domijan is Armenian.

Answer 5

Ancestry.com lists the following places of origin for immigrants with the surname of Buchanan entering the Port of New York:

Scotland 374

Ireland 209

England 141

Great Britain 43

Britain 16

Germany 11

Ancestry.com also notes that Buchanan comes from a place name near Loch Lomond which perhaps comes from the Gaelic "buth chanain", a phrase translated as "place of the canon."

Genealogists trace US President James Buchanan's ancestry  back to James I of Scotland. MSNBC commentator and Presidential aide to Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, Pat Buchanan, claims German, Scots-Irish, and Irish ancestry.  Buchanan is also a Roman Catholic.

Of course, someone of Scots or Irish descent could also be Jewish.  For example, according to Wikipedia, "Trainspotting's" director and producer, Andrew and Kevin Macdonald are Jewish, as is author Muriel Spark, and Scottish-American actress, Alicia Silverstone.