Family name origins & meanings
- French : nickname for an aggressive or belligerent man, from Old French gagnon ‘ mastiff’, ‘guard dog’.
- French : possibly from Occitan ganhon ‘young pig’, applied as an offensive nickname. See also Gonyeau.
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