Fergus

Boy name variations

Family name origins & meanings

• Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, a personal name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + gus ‘vigor’, ‘force’, or possibly ‘choice’. This was the name of an early Irish mythological figure, a valiant warrior, also of the grandfather of St. Columba.
• Scottish : from the Gaelic personal name Fearghus (see 1 above).