Given name & surname · also Irish
Gogan
“son of Cogadhán”
Gogan is a surname from Irish (ultimately Hungarian).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Gogan goes back to Irish Mac Cogadháin, meaning “son of Cogadhán.”
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Where it comes from
Gogan comes from Irish, and ultimately from Hungarian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Mac Cogadháin (“son of Cogadhán”), from Hungarian Gogán.
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Gogan’s family of names
In Romanian usage, Gogan has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Jorge.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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