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Mangan (surname)

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Mangan (Irish name: Ó Mongàin)
Language(s)Irish Gaelic
Origin
Meaning"grandson (or descendant) of long-haired"
Region of originConnacht, County Limerick, and County Tyrone
Other names
Variant form(s)Mongan, Mangham, Mangam, Mangin, Mangum, Mangon, Mingame, Mongain, Mongin, Mungan, Mungane, Mungin

Mangan is an Irish surname anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Mongáin ‘descendant of Mongan’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mongach ‘hair’, ‘mane’).

Notable people include: