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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Of Irish origin : Woulf found McCoghegan in Cavan, later McCogan, Cogan, from Gaelic Mac Eochagáin, a patronymic from a diminutive of Eochaidh meaning ‘horseman’ (a derivative of each ‘horse’).

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