What ethnicity is the last name "Vaughn"?

Question

What ethnicity is the last name "Vaughn"?

Answer 1

This is what www.ancestry.com has to say about the name.

Vaughn Name Meaning and History

Welsh: variant spelling of Vaughan.

hope this helps.

Answer 2

Someone has already answered your question.  Just wanted to say that I have a Vaughan line (that is how they spell it in my line) that I am working on.  My great-great-great-grandfather was Spain Marshall Vaughan.  Died in the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Answer 3

Welsh: from fychan, a lenited form of bychan, a diminutive of bach ‘little’. This was often used to distinguish the younger of two bearers of the same personal name, typically the son of a father with the same name.

Answer 4

sounds austrian or german