Mogan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Irish (Connacht); of uncertain etymology; possibly either a variant of Mohan (via the form Moughan), or from Gaelic 6 Mogain ‘descendant of Mogan'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmoʊɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mogan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 347K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 20K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 71K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 20K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Irish (Connacht); of uncertain etymology; possibly either a variant of Mohan (via the form Moughan), or from Gaelic 6 Mogain ‘descendant of Mogan'.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mogan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Mogan | 40 |
| US United States | 959 | 1 in 347K | 1.1K | Mogan | 228 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 446K | — | Mogan | 12 |
| PH Philippines | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 296K | — | Mogan | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Mogan | 69 |
| AU Australia | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 234K | — | Mogan | 40 |
| SG Singapore | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Mogan | 26 |
| NO Norway | 28 | 1 in 195K | 28 | — | 3 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mogan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Scottish Gaelic, boothose, sock, moggan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jean-Louis Moganb. 1958FRFrench politician
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 111 | #43,210 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 53 | #43,210 |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mogan mean, and where does it come from?
- Irish (Connacht); of uncertain etymology; possibly either a variant of Mohan (via the form Moughan), or from Gaelic 6 Mogain ‘descendant of Mogan'. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mogan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmoʊɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Mogan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Mogan in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mogan.
- How common is the name Mogan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 959 people named Mogan in 2010, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moganThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mogan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.