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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Bosnian and Serbian : from aga, status name for a Turkish dignitary belonging to the lowest rank of Turkish nobility.
  • Russian : nickname for an illegitimate child, meaning ‘son of Elágin’ (a female name), a variant of Elága, a pet form of a baptismal name beginning with El-.

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