Regan
[ˈriːɡən]Meaning
Irish Ó Riagáin, likely from Gaelic rí "king"; or Latin regina "queen"
Background Story
Regan is the name of a treacherous daughter of King Leir in Geoffrey of Monmouth's chronicles, a story Shakespeare adapted for King Lear in 1606, and it was also given to a possessed girl in the 1973 film The Exorcist. As a surname it is an Anglicized form of the Irish Ó Riagáin, probably from Gaelic rí, "sovereign, king", with a diminutive suffix, giving "the king's child" or "big king". The unisex forename is likely to have come later from the Latin regina, "queen". Variants include Reagan, Raegan and Regana.
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