The nugent Surname

nugent Name Meaning and History

English and Irish (of Norman origin), and northern French: habitational name from any of several places in northern France, such as Nogent-sur-Oise, named with Latin Novientum, apparently an altered form of a Gaulish name meaning ‘new settlement’.

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The nugent name in History

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Distribution of nugent Families in the US in 1920

Number of nugent families

288-574

97-287

1-96

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