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The bagan Surname

bagan Name Meaning and History

  1. possibly from a place named with bagno ‘marsh’.
  2. alternatively a nickname for a destructive person, from baganic ‘to destroy’.
  3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place called Bagny or Bagno, now in Poland.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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bagan Family Facts

Distribution of bagan Families in the US in 1920
Number of bagan families
 13-23
 5-12
 1-4
 0
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