English Explanatory Dictionary

Lanigan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A town in the Rural Municipality of Usborne, No. 210, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Word forms

Lanigan Lanigans Lanagan

Etymology

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Lonagáin (“descendant of Lonagán”), apparently a double diminutive of lon (“blackbird”), but possibly a variant of Flanagan.

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