Kagan is used as a family name or surname in Germany. It is 5 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Kagan
No. of characters: 5
Origin: Germany
Meaning: Currently, no meaning found for Kagan

How popular is Kagan?

Kagan is common in Germany.

Kagan is ranked 23964 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Kagan bearers increased by 0.2398903 per cent in 2010 US census to 2925 since 2000, the surname slipped by 739 spots and ranked at 10891. The last name was found in around 10 per 1 million population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 95.83 95.34
Hispanic or Latino 1.85 1.47
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.96 0.58
Others 0.92 2.02
Kagan is quite popular family name mostly used in Turkey while Israel is ahead in terms of density. Around 21435 people have been found who wears Kagan as their family name. Kagan is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 1 - 10:
18,072 Azerbaijan9
60,971 Kyrgyzstan6
103,755 Czech Republic5
14,054 China3
16,605 Austria3
28,083 Romania2
14,521 Portugal2
131,225 Spain2
18,718 Thailand2
11,736 Lithuania2
50,640 Switzerland2
7,191 Afghanistan1
53,033 Nigeria1
810,193 Indonesia1
15,162 Costa Rica1
9,498 Iceland1
56,169 Mexico1
3,214 Niger1
4,999 Papua New Guinea1
17,236 Ghana1
10,683 Cyprus1
29,774 Venezuela1
18,969 Wales1
153,416 Italy1
50,549 Georgia1
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
26,164 Sweden36
69,202 Netherlands18
477,287 India16
26,722 New Zealand14
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
35,558 Kazakhstan67
11,009 Finland60
9,807 Denmark59
26,687 Belgium59
Countries with hundreds of Kagan:
17,275 Russia990
10,002 South Africa639
12,741 Poland477
21,615 France453
9,045 Canada446
14,281 Ukraine399
11,234 Uzbekistan303
1,344 Latvia219
12,824 Australia214
49,962 Brazil207
25,613 England188
9,632 Belarus158
2,199 Estonia107
Countries with thousands of Kagan:
1,655 Turkey6,673
8,117 United States4,613
228 Israel3,758
7,991 Germany1,210
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Immigrants to US

From Ireland

Jno. Kagan worked as mason and hailed from Ireland. During the great famine, 19 years old embarked for USA from Liverpool on Fidelia and arrived on June 1, 1846. Thomas Kagan (31) Workman, 22 years old Dennis Kagan, are others that migrated to US.

Kagan Namesakes

    Donald Kagan, American historian and classicist at Yale University
  • Bernhard Kagan, Chess Player
  • Aliette Kagan, Benoit Mandelbrot's wife
  • Lazar Kaganovich, Politician
  • Anatol Kagan, Architect
  • Aryan Kaganof, Film-maker
  • Binyamin Kagan, Author
  • Israel Meir Kagan, Rabbi
  • Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Daryn Kagan, Broadcaster
  • Elena Kagan, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Richard Kagan, from 2012 comedy and drama movie Subway Song, who played Neil.

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