Nugane is used as a family name or surname in Ireland. It is 6 characters long in length.
Surname Nugane is variant of the Nugent. Gent, according to Salverte, is the ancient French word (of which gentil is a diminutive form) signifying the pleasantness of a place or person; and no, noe, non, or none, designates a low meadow which is frequently inundated. No-gent or Nugent, he adols, is the name of many towns or villages built on the banks of a river in a pleasant position, such as Nogent-sur-Seine, Nogent-sur -Marne, etc. The family are a branch of the great house of Belesme, being descended from Fulke de Belesme, Lord of Nogent le Rotrou, who accompanied William of Normandy and fought at the battle of Hastings. Some of his descendants assumed the surname of Nogent or Nugent, and two of them, Gilbert de Nugent and Hugh de Nugent, cousins, founded the name in Ireland temp. Henry II, they having accompanied Henry de Lacy's expedition against that country. They settled in Westmeath, on part of the estate held to this day by the representative of the family, the Marquis of Westmeath.
The surname is a variation of Nugent. One who came from Nogent meaning "fair, wet meadow," the name of several places in France.
The variation of the Nugent. Nogent le Rotrou, the ancient seat of this family, is in the province of Orleanois, just over the border of Normandy, and a few leagues to the east ward of Belesme, from whence the family were derived.