Egan is used as a family name or surname in Gaelic. It is 4 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Egan
No. of characters: 4
Origin: Gaelic
Meaning: From Gaelic Eigin meaning force, violence; hence strong-handed, active. The name can also be derived from Agen, a town in Guienne, France or Agen, Welsh, local, a cleft.

How popular is Egan?

Egan is common in United States.

Egan is ranked 8309 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Egan bearers increased by 2.476546 per cent in 2010 US census to 23048 since 2000, the surname slipped by 103 spots and ranked at 1561. The last name was found in around 78 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 94.48 96.12
Hispanic or Latino 2.36 1.54
Others 1.24 1
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 1.01 0.5
Black 0.58 0.44
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.33 0.4
Egan is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Ireland is ahead in terms of density. Around 65160 people have been found who wears Egan as their family name. Egan is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
244,758 Ukraine10
1,005 Cayman Islands7
126 Montserrat6
5,340 Iceland6
13,220 Thailand6
103,755 Czech Republic5
122,390 Belarus4
11,480 Japan4
12,383 Armenia4
2,935 Angola3
1,850 Papua New Guinea3
1,879 Honduras3
25,074 Greece3
14,126 Colombia3
4,104 South Korea2
5,298 Botswana2
41,879 Turkey2
4,367 Afghanistan2
20,837 Venezuela2
5,217 Zambia2
14,004 Hungary2
26,123 Malaysia2
26,532 Chile2
6,266 Luxembourg2
1,333 Guam2
144,523 Kazakhstan2
7,198 Maldives1
2,190 Barbados1
134,667 Zimbabwe1
28,746 Algeria1
176 Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha1
37,493 Austria1
7,847 Albania1
472 Tonga1
2,374 Bermuda1
5,872 Namibia1
2,877 Cuba1
8,268 Mauritius1
8,500 Dominican Republic1
12,270 Lebanon1
16,073 Latvia1
28,365 Kenya1
11,486 Estonia1
9,591 Panama1
21,562 Portugal1
5,553 Taiwan1
799 British Virgin Islands1
11,923 Slovenia1
24,421 Slovakia1
16,228 Bulgaria1
50,307 Saudi Arabia1
696 Saint Kitts and Nevis1
1,572 Macau1
7,941 Guatemala1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
95,259 Italy45
6,551 Qatar39
15,412 Denmark34
20,103 Norway33
43,662 Belgium30
313,372 Russia23
1,163 Jersey17
493,558 India15
11,059 Nigeria13
3,922 China11
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
15,572 Switzerland72
32,530 Netherlands71
5,248 Singapore59
3,881 Hong Kong59
141,377 Indonesia52
18,409 Sweden51
Countries with hundreds of Egan:
11,469 Germany874
1,044 Scotland768
1,259 New Zealand582
25,252 Philippines516
11,024 Argentina493
5,685 Ghana479
30,009 France331
1,252 Wales316
1,537 El Salvador258
1,229 Northern Ireland238
17,404 Mexico209
60,164 Brazil159
7,063 United Arab Emirates138
23,229 Spain121
Countries with thousands of Egan:
61 Ireland9,073
930 England8,147
358 Australia7,936
1,942 Canada2,586
3,868 South Africa1,699
Countries with ten thousands of Egan:
1,308 United States29,494
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Mason Michael Egan from Ireland aboard the Liverpool from Liverpool during the Irish famine. He is registered to be 29 years old when he arrived in USA on March 13, 1846. 24 years old U Egan, U Egan, Infant Bridget Egan, 25 years old Michael Egan, Peter Egan, aged 20, 19 years old Michael Egan, Maid Biddy Egan, 20 years old Winiford Egan, and 850 other Egan around 49.55% of whom were workman while others worked as butcher and clerk, spinster, farmer, tailoress, carpenter, milliner, mechanic, servant, dressmaker, spinner, blacksmith, seamstress, house keeper, agriculturer migrated to US.

Comments

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Etsuko Parent
 The origin of the name is Basque etymology of the name comes from the agglutination of words hegi gain which means the height / high coast this surname specifies the location of the ancestral home.

Egan Namesakes

    Mark Egan, American fusion jazz and jazz musician
    Kian Egan, Irish musician
  • Aeryk Egan, Actor
  • William A. Egan, Former Governor of Alaska
  • Beresford Egan, Novelist
  • Lord Egan, Musical Artist
  • Andoni Egaña, Author
  • Greg Egan, Fiction writer
  • Peter Egan, Actor
  • Avian Egan, Actor
  • Kenny Egan, Boxer
  • Beresford Egan, Novelist
  • Allison Egan, from 0 drama movie Angels of Anarchy, who portrayed the Detox and Working Girl.
  • In 2018, Mary Egan played the role of Knowit All in comedy film Mismatch.
  • Sean Egan, from 2008 drama film Nowhere, PA, who played Tim Knous.

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