The FAGAN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	16,779	1975	0.006	62
United States (1880 census)	5,728	1065	0.011	115
Change since 1880	+11051	-910	-0.005	-53
Other Countries
Australia	976	1691	0.006	60
United Kingdom	3,791	1644	0.008	83

Top States for FAGAN by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
New York	1,437	1221	0.008	76
Florida	1,353	1478	0.008	85
Texas	1,272	1855	0.006	61
Pennsylvania	1,184	1141	0.010	96
California	1,151	2662	0.003	34
Top States for FAGAN by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Rhode Island	198	684	0.019	189
Connecticut	528	689	0.016	155
Massachusetts	694	1255	0.011	109
Pennsylvania	1,184	1141	0.010	96
Delaware	74	1852	0.009	94

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

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

Classification and Origin of FAGAN

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 FAGAN 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 FAGAN 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 FAGAN in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	232	1.38
Mixed Race	196	1.17
Asian/Pacific	94	0.56
Native American/Alaskan	45	0.27
White (Caucasian)	14,586	86.93
Black/African American	1,628	9.7

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

Meaning of FAGAN in historical publications

(origin: Gaelic.) A beech-tree. The Fagans were descended from Patrick O'Hagan, living A.D. 1180. O'Hagan, the posterity of Agan. Ogan, Ogyn, or Hogyn signifies, in the Welsh, young, a youth. Gaelic, Og, a young man.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

FAGAN. A corruption of the patronymical O'Hagan. The Fagans of Feltrim, CO. Cork, deduce themselves from Patrick 0"Hagan, who opposed the invasion of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans in the XII. cent. SeeB.L.G.

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 FAGAN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FAGAN.

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.