Degan Family History
Degan Name Meaning
Italian (Venetian) and southern French: from Venetian
degan, Occitan decan ‘dean’, probably denoting someone
in the service of a dean. See also Dean.Irish:
variant spelling of Deegan.Respelling of German
Degen.French and Dutch: habitational name from the city of
Ghent (Gand) in Belgium.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Degan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Degan families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Degan families
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6 - 10 3 - 5 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Degan families
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4 - 6 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Degan Family Origin
Degan Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Degan
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Degan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Degan census records
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Degan Civil War Service Records
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