Keegan is one of a clan of spirited Irish surnames starting with K and ending with 'n'--this one with the cheery double 'e' in the middle-- that are appealing to an increasing number of parents. It derives from Mac Aodhagáin, meaning "son (or descendant) of Aodhagán," a diminutive...
In this way, about the year 1000 starting from the city of Venice, a second name (surname) was added. The custom gradually spread from the nobility to all classes of people, and by the 15th century most surnames were formed. A small, illiterate social milieu, as was a village, just ne...
Northamptonshire.TheseMontagues were descended from a family of Northamptonshire yeomen by the name of Ladde who can be traced back to 1355 as householders in Hanging Houghton. They changed their name to Montagu about the middle of the 15th century and achieved gentry status with Sir Edward Monta...
settled in Mosquito and was the forefather of all the Simmons in Newfoundland. The second was that a Simmons came from the pirate stronghold of Saba in the Caribbean Leeward Islands where the Simmons had been since 1658. Hemay have jumped ship in Newfoundland, thereby starting the Simmons ...
However, almost without exception, these surnames have bearers referred to in the 19th century as born outside of the Land of Israel, often in the same countries from which migrants with the same names came during the previous centuries. If we just take names starting with A-, then such ...