# Dagan (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/dagan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Hebrew.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Type | occupational, named after the work an ancestor did |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 537 |
| US rank (2010) | 40,672 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 574,945 people |
| Change since 2000 | +24% (433 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דָּגָן (dagán, “grain, corn”), probably a metonymic occupational surname.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Dagan in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 74% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 6.7% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 14% |
| Two or more races | 3.0% |

## Similar surnames

Dugan, Duggan, Deegan, Dougan, Dogan, Dixon, Dawson, Dickson, Dyson, Dizon, Deason, Dixson.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.