Fergus Family History
Fergus Name Meaning
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghuis
or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus’, a personal
name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + gus ‘vigor’,
‘force’, or possibly ‘choice’. This was the name of an early Irish
mythological figure, a valiant warrior, also of the grandfather of St.
Columba.Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name
Fearghus (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Fergus Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Fergus families
 24 - 46  9 - 23 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Fergus families
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18 - 33 7 - 17 |
1 - 6 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Fergus families
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105 - 208 36 - 104 |
1 - 35 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Fergus Family Origin
Fergus Immigration Information
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Fergus Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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