Surname Spotlight: Hagans

Hagans is one more way Hagan has been written over the centuries. Taken at its root, Hagans points to “Descendant of Aodhagán”.

Spelling and variants

The extra ending in Hagans is patronymic: it identified a person as belonging to Hagan's family. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. The same family of names includes O'Hagan.

In the 2010 US Census, 3,316 Americans gave Hagans as their last name (rank 9,770). That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Hagans coat of arms

There is no single Hagans family crest for every bearer. Herald Lab researches the arms historically associated with the name and explains whose they were.

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