Shaner History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

• Origins Available:
• Ireland

Etymology of Shaner

All Irish surnames have a unique and often romantic meaning. The name Shaner originally appeared in Gaelic as Mac Seain, which translates as son of John.

Early Origins of the Shaner family

Early History of the Shaner family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Shaner research. Another 97 words (7 lines of text) covering the year 1750 is included under the topic Early Shaner History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Shaner Spelling Variations

The spelling of names in Ireland during the Middle Ages was rarely consistent. This inconsistency was due to the scribes and church officials' attempts to record orally defined names in writing. The common practice of recording names as they sounded resulted in spelling variations such as McShane, McShain, McShaen, MacShane, MacShain, MacShaen, MacCheyne, McCheyne, McSheyne, MacSheyne, McCheine, McChain, MacCheine, MacChain, McChein, McShaney, McShanie and many more.

Early Notables of the Shaner family

More information is included under the topic Early Shaner Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Shaner Ranking

In the United States, the name Shaner is the 5,111^st most popular surname with an estimated 4,974 people with that name. 1

Migration of the Shaner family

In the late 18th century, Irish families began emigrating to North America in the search of a plot of land to call their own. This pattern of emigration grew steadily until the 1840s when the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s cause thousands of Irish to flee the death and disease that accompanied the disaster. Those that made it alive to the shores of the United States and British North America (later to become Canada) were, however, instrumental in the development of those two powerful nations. Many of these Irish immigrants proudly bore the name of Shaner: John and Joseph McShain settled in Philadelphia in 1860.