Surname Spotlight: McColgan

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named McColgan, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

The meaning behind McColgan

McColgan began as an Irish family name. In Elsdon Smith's reading, the name described “the son of Colga”.

It is a patronymic: it named a person after a father or forebear. About 1,203 people in the United States were recorded as McColgan in 2010, placing it 21,660 on the national list.

Get the complete McColgan report, with a museum-style coat of arms.