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The EGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 22,491 1458 0.008 83
United States (1880 census) 5,362 1134 0.011 107
Change since 1880 +17129 -324 -0.003 -24
Other Countries
Australia 4,132 359 0.025 253
United Kingdom 6,271 1003 0.014 137
Top States for EGAN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 2,379 678 0.013 125
California 1,991 1590 0.006 59
Massachusetts 1,716 448 0.027 270
New Jersey 1,548 467 0.018 184
Pennsylvania 1,457 887 0.012 119
Top States for EGAN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 1,716 448 0.027 270
Rhode Island 244 517 0.023 233
Connecticut 652 518 0.019 191
New Jersey 1,548 467 0.018 184
New Hampshire 199 930 0.016 161

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called EGAN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called EGAN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called EGAN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a EGAN by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of EGAN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Ireland

Language of origin: Gaelic

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the EGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the EGAN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of EGAN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Hispanic) 346 1.54
Mixed Race 225 1
Asian/Pacific 112 0.5
Black/African American 99 0.44
Native American/Alaskan 90 0.4
White (Caucasian) 21,618 96.12

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the EGAN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of EGAN in historical publications

EGAN. . Tlie cineal JEoghain, were the ' genus' or progeny of Eoglian, a great Irish chief contemporary with St. Patrick. The name is anglicised to Owen and Eugene. O'Donovan in Irish Penny .Journ. p. 327. Gaelic, e)ffi?i, force, violence ; hence strong-handed, active. Arthur.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to EGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as EGAN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for EGAN

The following words are slight variants of EGAN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.