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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cogadháin ‘son of Cogadhán’ (see Coogan).
  • Hungarian (Gogán) : from an old secular personal name Gogán (also found as Gogány and Gógány).

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