Last name: COLGAN
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COLGAN : This last name is indexed 21,483 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
COLGAN : Irish (Offaly and Kildare Tyrone) and Scottish (Lanarkshire): shortened form of McColgan or an Anglicized form of Irish Ó Colgáin ‘descendant of Colga’ a personal name based on colg ‘thorn sword’.
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