Egan

Where Egan comes from

From Irish Ó hAodhagáin, literally, “descendant of Aodhagán”, from Old Irish Áedacán, from Áed + -acán, from áed (“fire”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Egan
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #3,392 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1985
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2003
    Peak, #2,349
    45 babies named Egan — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2016
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #4,470.
In the dictionary
  • An unknown-gender given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.