The Dignan surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,036 people carried this name — #24,222 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 285,700 people counted. That is up 4% from 997 in 2000.
In Ireland’s birth registers, 1890
Ireland registered 11 births for the Dignan name in 1890.
Most were registered in Leinster. By the Registrar-General’s own method — births multiplied by 44.38 — that is about 500 people bearing the name in Ireland at the time. One of them was indexed under another spelling of the name. The Registrar-General’s note on the name: “Westmeath.”
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born, 1890
Registrar-General for Ireland, «Special Report on Surnames in Ireland» (R. E. Matheson, 1894), births index of 1890 — public domain.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 112 people named Dignan.
3 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 10 départements, most often Gironde.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Dignan,
with a public archive behind them.
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Peter Dignan 1847–1922 · lawyer -
Steve Dignan 1859–1881 · baseball player -
Herman H. Dignan 1890–1956 · politician -
John Dignan 1880–1953 · Catholic priest
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Gordon Dignan 1880–1963
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Ralph Hubert Dignan 1890–1958 · Catholic priest
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Dignan.
- Dietsch 1,240 · U.S. census
- Diette 163 · U.S. census
- Dietz 18,720 · U.S. census
- Dieu 805 · U.S. census
- Dieudonne 906 · U.S. census
- Diez 3,502 · U.S. census
- Dile 412 · U.S. census
- Dilger 886 · U.S. census
- Diliberto 1,148 · U.S. census
- Dill 18,215 · U.S. census
- Dillard 31,021 · U.S. census
- Dille 2,093 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Dignan is.
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