Mehigan Explained

Mehigan
Meaning:	"honourable"
Region:	Ireland
Language origin:	Irish Gaelic

Mehigan is an Irish surname. It comes from the Irish Gaelic name Ó Miadhacháin which derives from "Miadhach", which means "honourable". There are over a dozen variations on the surname, including Meighan, Meaghan, Mehegan, Megan, Meegan and Meehan.

Mehigan

• Denis Mehigan (1890–1959), Irish Gaelic footballer
• Gary Mehigan (1967), English-Australian chef and restaurateur
• Irving P. Mehigan (1898–1980), American state senator for Wisconsin
• Joshua Mehigan (1969), American poet.
• Mick Mehigan (1887–1955), Irish Gaelic footballer
• P.D. Mehigan (1884–1965), Irish sportsperson and journalist

Meighan

• Clement Woodward Meighan (1925–1997), archaeologist
• Hunter Meighan (1914–2008), New York politician
• John Meighan (1891–1978), Irish politician
• Patrick Meighan (born 1949), American saxophonist
• Ron Meighan (1963), Canadian ice hockey defenceman
• Thomas Meighan (1879–1936), American actor in silent films and early talkies
• Tom Meighan (1981), English musician, the lead vocalist of Kasabian

Meighen

• Arthur Meighen (1874–1960), Canadian lawyer and politician who became Prime Minister, after whom the following locations in Canada are named:
  • Meighen Island, an uninhabited member of the Queen Elizabeth Islands
  • Mount Arthur Meighen, a mountain in the Premier Range of the Cariboo Mountains, British Columbia
• Isabel Meighen (1882–1985), the wife of Arthur Meighen
• Lillian Meighen Wright (1910–1993), Canadian philanthropist, and daughter of Arthur and Isabel Meighen
• Maxwell Meighen (1908–1992), Canadian financier, and son of Arthur and Isabel Meighen
• Michael Meighen (born 1939), Canadian lawyer, cultural patron and former senator, and son of Theodore Meighen
• Richard Meighen (died 1641), London publisher
• Theodore Meighen (1905–1979), Canadian lawyer and philanthropist and the son of Arthur and Isabel Meighen

See also

• Meehan, another variation of the surname
• McMeekin, a usually Scottish variation of the surname
• Megan, a Welsh given name that has variants Meaghan and Meighan

External links

• Mehigan at the House of Names
• Meighan at the Surname Database