Last name: BEGAN

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BEGAN : This last name is indexed 7,192 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BEGAN : 1: Irish: from Ó Beagáin ‘descendant of Beagán’ a personal name from a diminutive of beag ‘small’. The name has been Anglicized as Little Lyttle and Littleton.2: Slovak (mainly Begáň also Begán): dialect variant of Behan a cognate of 3 below.3: Slovenian: nickname derived from beg ‘escape getaway’ or from begati ‘to run about’. This surname is very rare in Slovenia.4: Croatian: from the old personal name Began derived from begati ‘to flee to run away’. Alternatively a surname originating from the times of the Turkish occupation of the Balkans ultimately derived from the Turkish title of respect beg (see Beg). This surname is very rare in Croatia; in North America it may hence also be a shortened form of the Croatian and Serbian patronymic Beganović (see Beganovic).

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