The nugent Surname

nugent Name Meaning and History

English and Irish (of Norman origin), and northern French: habitational name from any of several places in northern France, such as Nogent-sur-Oise, named with Latin Novientum, apparently an altered form of a Gaulish name meaning ‘new settlement’.

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

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nugent Family Facts

Emigration Year (AU)Emigration Year (US)Name Distribution (UK)Name Distribution (Scotland)Place of Origin Ports of Departure Occupations

Distribution of nugent Families in the US in 1920

Number of nugent families

288-574

97-287

1-96

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Felix Nugent	Marilyn Nugent	2
Joana Nugent, b.1845	lindauer_1	1
Lyde M. NUGENT d. 15 December 1944 - Kansas City, MO	JohnWOBrien	0
need look up Fall River, Mass. death obit.	pgt1940	0
William Nugent	Danielle Smithhart	12
Frank Nugent	notthopkins	5
Nugent	Charlotte Webb	4
William Nugent	familysearch181	6
Nugent-Armstrong	Marlene Tarr	9
Nugents -Port Huron, MI, California, Canada	memawmare	0

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