Bagan
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Frequency: (179)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Ukrainian and Polish: of uncertain origin. 1. possibly from a place named with bagno ‘marsh’. 2. alternatively a nickname for a destructive person, from baganić ‘to destroy’. 3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from a place called Bagny or Bagno, now in Poland.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 5%. Jerzy, Krystyna, Krzysztof, Zofia.
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