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The degan Surname

degan Name Meaning and History

  1. Italian (Venetian) and southern French: from Venetian degan, Occitan decan ‘dean’, probably denoting someone in the service of a dean. See also Dean.
  2. Irish: variant spelling of Deegan.
  3. Respelling of German Degen.
  4. French and Dutch: habitational name from the city of Ghent (Gand) in Belgium.

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Distribution of degan Families in the US in 1920
Number of degan families
 29-55
 10-28
 1-9
 0
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