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logan Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland so called, principally that near Auchinleck. They all get their names from Gaelic lagan, a diminutive of lag ‘hollow’.
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (earlier spelled Lothchán), a personal name of unexplained origin.

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

Distribution of logan Families in the US in 1920
Number of logan families
 437-871
 146-436		 1-145
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Compiled by Ancestry.com.au from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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