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flanagan Name Meaning and History

Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Flannagáin ‘descendant of Flannagán’, a personal name derived from a double diminutive of flann ‘scarlet’, ‘ruddy’.

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The flanagan name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the flanagan family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of flanagan Families in the US in 1920
Number of flanagan families
 363-723
 122-362		 1-121
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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