Last name: FAGAN

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All you have to know about the last name FAGAN

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FAGAN : This last name is indexed 50,036 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

FAGAN : Irish:: 1: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fágáin or Ó Faodhagáin dialect forms of Ó hÓgáin (see Hogan Hagan) and Ó hAodhagáin (see Hagan). Irish lenited f (spelled fh) is soundless and a number of words beginning with vowels have gained an initial f in some dialects; such seems to be the case here.2: occasionally an Anglicized form of Mac Phaidín (see McFadden) or Ó Fiacháin (see Feehan).

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