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First name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish: Little hollow
  2. Scottish: Little hollow

First name variations: Logun

Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Scottish and northern Irish: habitational name from any of the places in Scotland so called, principally that near Auchinleck. They all get their names from Gaelic lagan, a diminutive of lag ‘hollow’.
  2. Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Leocháin ‘descendant of Leochán’ (earlier spelled Lothchán), a personal name of unexplained origin.
  3. James Logan (1674–1751), an Ulster Scot and a Quaker, born in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Ireland, became secretary to William Penn and held high office in the state of PA. Among his descendants have been numbered several prominent statesmen. KY pioneer Benjamin Logan moved with his parents from West Pennsborough Township, Cumberland Co., PA, to Augusta Co., VA, in 1740.

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