# Coogan

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #47,546

## Definitions
1. A surname from Irish.

## Etymology
Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Mac Cogadháin (“son of Cogadhán”), a diminutive from a reduced form of the personal name Cúchogaidh, which is composed of the elements cú (“hound”) and cogadh (“war”).

## Easily confused with
- **coon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coogan-vs-coon)
- **cowan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coogan-vs-cowan)
- **cougar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coogan-vs-cougar)
- **coolant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coogan-vs-coolant)
- **Conan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conan-vs-coogan)
- **conga** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conga-vs-coogan)
- **Colman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/colman-vs-coogan)
- **conman** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/conman-vs-coogan)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ccoogan`, `cogan`, `cogoan`, `cooagn`, `coogann`, `cooggan`, `coogna`, `ocogan`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/coogan