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REGAN - The family name Regan, and its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, Reagan, O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, f...
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Regan, NORTH DAKOTA, UNITED STATES |
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Regan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, PAKISTAN |
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The family name Regan, and its cognates O'Regan, O Regan, Reagan, O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, from Ua Riagáin. The meaning is likely to originate in ancient gaelic from ri "sovereign, king" and the diminutive -in, "the king's child", transliterating as "little king". * Descendant of Riagán'; the name of two distinct families: one seated in ancient Meath, and the other in Thomond. The O'Regans of Meath were a branch of the southern Ui Neill and one of the four Tribes of Tara. Before the Anglo-Norman invasion, they were lords of south Breagh in Meath and the north of the present Co. Dublin, and apparently a powerful family. They took a leading part in the wars against the Danes. The annalists, under the year 1029, record a notable triumph of Mathghamhain Ó Riagáin, king of Breagh, over the foreigners, when he made prisoner Amhlaoibh, son of Sitric, king of Dublin, and only released him on payment of an enormous ransom, including the celebr |