Cogan Family History
- Cogan Name Meaning
- Americanized form of Jewish (from Ukraine) Kogan, from the Russian pronunciation of Cohen. Irish (of Welsh origin): habitational name from an area near Cardiff, which may have been named with a Welsh word meaning ‘bowl’, ‘depression’. There is evidence of a family named de Cogan in the 12th century, and by the 13th century the name was also associated with Somerset, Devon, County Limerick, and County Cork. Irish (Leitrim): variant of Coogan.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 365,071 Historical Documents with Cogan on Ancestry
- 60,388 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 37,943 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,296 Military Records
- 7,761 Immigration Records
- 252,683 Member Trees
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Number of Cogan families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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54 - 105 19 - 53 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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19 - 36 7 - 18 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
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- Confederate
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- Union
- 129
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