# Donnan

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #88,285

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish.
2. A ghost town in Fayette County, Iowa, United States.

## Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Donnáin (“descendant of Donnán”), a personal name which derives from donn (“brown, brown-haired”) + -án (“diminutive suffix”).

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/donnan