Logan Family History
Logan Name Meaning
Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the
places in Scotland so called, principally that near Auchinleck. They
all get their names from Gaelic lagan, a diminutive of
lag ‘hollow’.Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic
Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (earlier
spelled Lothchán), a personal name of unexplained origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Logan Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Logan families
 437 - 871  146 - 436 |
 1 - 145  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Logan families
|
338 - 674 113 - 337 |
1 - 112 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Logan families
|
823 - 1,644 275 - 822 |
1 - 274 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Logan Family Origin
Logan Immigration Information
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Average Life Expectancy for Logan
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Logan Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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