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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Northern Irish and Scottish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Uiginn ‘son of the viking’ (see Higgins) or Mac Guagáin, an altered version of Mag Eochagáin (see Geoghegan).

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