Lanigan

name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Irish. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A town in the Rural Municipality of Usborne, No. 210, Saskatchewan, Canada. countable, uncountable

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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