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Degan

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Feminine
Rare

Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Venetian) and southern French : from Venetian degan, Occitan decan ‘dean’, probably denoting someone in the service of a dean. See also Dean.
  • Irish : variant spelling of Deegan.
  • Respelling of German Degen.
  • French and Dutch : habitational name from the city of Ghent (Gand) in Belgium.

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