Origin and popularity of the name MORGAN

Origin

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.

Cadmore : from Cadmore End (Bucks).in W England possibly from Welsh Cadfor (spelled earlier Catmor; from British Celtic elements meaning ‘battle’ and ‘great’) or an English variant of an early form of the distinct Welsh name Cadifor for which compare Madauc ap Kedivor 1292 in Morgan and Morgan p. 62; Katerina Cadifor 1381 in Poll Tax (Grafton Gloucs).

Canvin : from the ancestor of the Welsh male given name Cynfyn the first element of which comes from the original stem of ci ‘hound’. Compare Ann Cynvin 1722 in IGI (Grosmont Monmouths). Morgan and Morgan report the name in this spelling also from Herefs Cheshire Radnors and Cumb.possibly to be associated with the unexplained eastern England name of Nichs. Convyn 1568 in IGI (Mistley Essex) and Alice Convine 1817 in IGI (Littleport Cambs).

Coucom : probably a variant of Colcombe from a lost place in Herefs. Compare Morgan Cowcomb 1646 in IGI (Kinnersley Herefs); James Cowcumb 1841 in IGI (Much Dewchurch Herefs).

Lewell : 1: apparently from Welsh *Llywel a contracted form of Llywelyn (see Llewellyn) though no such form is noted in Morgan and Morgan. Later bearers probably belong with (2). 2: variant of Lowell; see Lovell.

Winston : 2: English: from the Middle English personal name Wynstan (Old English Wynstān from wynn ‘joy’ + stān ‘stone’).1: English: habitational name principally from Winson and Winstone (Gloucestershire) or Winston (Suffolk) occasionally perhaps from Winston (Durham) Winston in Brixton (Devon) or Winstone Farm near Wroxall (Isle of Wight). Winstone (Gloucestershire) derives from the Old English personal name Wynna + Old English stān ‘stone’. Winson (Gloucestershire) and the Suffolk Durham and Devon placenames derive from the Old English personal name Wine (genitive Wines) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead estate’. The Isle of Wight placename derives from the Old English personal name Wynsige + Old English tūn.4: Americanized form of Jewish Weinstein.3: Welsh (southern): adopted for Welsh Trewin ‘house or farm (tref) of Wyn’. According to Morgan and Morgan it is thought that Tre-wyn in Crucornau Fawr in Gwent (Monmouthshire) is the source of this Welsh surname. This name has been established in the county of Waterford Ireland since 1573.

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