Jarnigan Coat of Arms and Surname Origin

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Family name meaning

Jarnigan is best understood together with Jernigan: both are English spellings of one family name. Taken at its root, Jarnigan points to “Jernegan / Gernagon”.

Spelled with “a” instead of “e”, Jarnigan shows how the same name was heard and written differently. Census takers and immigration officers often wrote what they heard. Related forms: Jernegan. The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Jarnigan with 816 bearers, at rank 29,064. It sits among the 50,000 most common last names in the country.

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