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Surname Etymology and Meaning of FAGAN

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(origin: Gaelic.) A beech-tree. The Fagans were descended from Patrick O'Hagan, living A.D. 1180. O'Hagan, the posterity of Agan. Ogan, Ogyn, or Hogyn signifies, in the Welsh, young, a youth. Gaelic, Og, a young man.

Source: An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names With an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857).