McGuigan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Irish Gaelic Mac Guagdin, an alteration of Mag Eochagdin
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈɡɪɡən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McGuigan is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
- CACanada
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Irish Gaelic Mac Guagdin, an alteration of Mag Eochagdin
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)
McGuigan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Uiginn ‘son of the viking’ (see Higgins) or Mac Guagain, an altered version of Mag Eochagain (see Geoghegan).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
McKall Mclimurray see Gilmore altered version of Mag Eochagdin] see Geoghegan. Vars.: McG(o)ugan, McGucki(a)n; McWiggan.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
altered version of Mag Eochagain; see Geoghegan. Vars.: McG(o)ugan, McGucki(a)n; McWiggan.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
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)
- Andy McGuiganb. 1878GBFootballer (1878-1948)
- James Charles McGuiganb. 1894CACanadian Catholic prelate (1894–1974)
- Charles McGuiganb. 1901GBEnglish footballer (1901-1949)
- Pat McGuiganb. 1935IEIrish singer
- Peter Thomas McGuiganb. 1942CACanadian historian (1942–2017)
- Barry McGuiganb. 1961IEIrish boxer
- Paul McGuiganb. 1963GBScottish director
- Paul McGuiganb. 1971GBEnglish bass player
- Nika McGuiganb. 1986IEactress
- Byron McGuiganb. 1989ZAScottish rugby union player
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 15 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.6K | #8,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,866 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.5K | #8,676 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 29 | #65,916 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 29 | #64,358 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #144,064 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #171,558 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #359,867 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 McGuigan mean, and where does it come from?
- from Irish Gaelic Mac Guagdin, an alteration of Mag Eochagdin Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How do you pronounce McGuigan?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈɡɪɡən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McGuigan have the most bearers?
- McGuigan is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about McGuigan?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mcguiganThe 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, “McGuigan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.