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Surname Etymology and Meaning of HOGAN

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(origin: In the Cornish) mortal, in the Gaelic, a young man, from "Og," young. Hogyn, Welsh, a stripling.

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

Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hÓgáin ‘descendant of Ógán’, a personal name from a diminutive of óg ‘young’, also ‘young warrior’. In the south, some bearers claim descent from an uncle of Brian Boru. In northern Ireland a surname of the same form was Anglicized as Hagan.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)