Last name: MORGAN
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MORGAN : This last name is indexed 1,038,226 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MORGAN : 1: Welsh (especially Glamorgan): from the medieval Welsh personal name Morgan Morgant (Old Welsh Morcant of uncertain etymology).2: Irish: importation of the Welsh surname (see 1 above) to which has been assimilated more than one Gaelic surname notably Ó Muireagáin (see Merrigan).3: Scottish: probably from a Gaelic personal name cognate with Welsh Morcant.4: Altered form of Maugans a surname of German origin.
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