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Begin

Updated: June 9, 2019
Updated: June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Jewish (from Belarus) : variant of Begun.
  • Variant of the Irish surname Beggin, Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beagáin ‘descendant of Beagán’, a personal name from the diminutive of beag ‘small’.

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