| ![Show Contents]() Kagan History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
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 Israel The distinguished surname Kagan is a proud sign of an ancient Jewish culture. The surname Kagan is an occupational surname for a priest, and it comes from the Hebrew word kohen. Traditionally, priests were considered to have been members of a hereditary caste, descended from Aaron, the brother of Moses. Not all Jewish bearers of the surname Kagan belong to this caste, however. When many Jews were being forced to join the Russian Army for a term of 25 years, a number of them changed their last name to Kagan, because members of the clergy were exempt from service. Kagan RankingIn the United States, the name Kagan is the 10,891st most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. [1]
 Kagan migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: Kagan Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Samuel Kagan, aged 26, who landed in New York, NY in 1840 [2]
- Simon Kagan, aged 26, who arrived in New York, NY in 1840 [2]
| Contemporary Notables of the name Kagan (post 1700) | + |
- Vladimir Kagan (1927-2016), American furniture designer, inducted into the Interior Designer Hall of Fame in 2009
- Janet Kagan (1946-2008), award-winning American science fiction author
- Donald Kagan (b. 1932), American historian, winner of the National Humanities Medal in 2002
- Veniamin Fedorovich Kagan (1869-1953), Russian and Soviet mathematician
- Oleg Kagan (1946-1990), Soviet violinist
- Henri B. Kagan (b. 1930), French Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris-Sud, co-winner of the 2001 Wolf Prize
- "What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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Kagan migration to the United States 
