Donegan Family History
Donegan Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Donnagáin
‘descendant of Donnagán’, a personal name from a double
diminutive of donn ‘brown-haired man’ or ‘chieftain’.
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Name Distribution of Donegan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Donegan families
 75 - 147  26 - 74 |
 1 - 25  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Donegan families
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43 - 83 15 - 42 |
1 - 14 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Donegan families
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12 - 22 5 - 11 |
1 - 4 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Donegan Family Origin
Donegan Immigration Information
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Average Life Expectancy for Donegan
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Donegan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
Donegan census records
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Donegan Civil War Service Records
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