Etymograph

English

Reagan

Reagan comes from Irish; the Irish form is not named.

  1. Irishc. 1200–presentform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2022Reagan

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Irishc. 1200–presentform not named
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2022Reagan

Earliest quotation: 2022, Binyamin Appelbaum, Building a Better Meatpacking Industry: “When a rival meatpacker filed an antitrust lawsuit to…”

The story

Anglicized from Irish Gaelic Ó Riagáin (‘descendant of Riagán’), a personal name possibly derived from ríodhgach (‘impulsive, furious’), an alternative form of ríogach.

Today it means

name A surname from Irish; variant forms Regan, Riggen.

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