Agin (surname)

Agin (Russian: А́гин; masculine) or Agina (А́гина; feminine) is a Russian last name.[1] In general, it can be either a variant of the last name Ageyev (derived from the first name Aggey), or it could be a derivative of other names starting with "Ag-" (such as Agafon, Agapy, Agey).[1]

However, the last name of the Russian aristocratic family of Agins (of whom Alexander Agin in the list below is one of the representatives) has a different origin.[1] In the 18th–19th centuries, a tradition existed in Russia to give an abbreviated last name of the father (with the first syllable omitted) to illegitimately born children.[1] The last name "Agin" in particular is an abbreviated form of the last name Yelagin.[1]

People with the last name
  • Alexander Agin (1817–1875), Russian painter who illustrated one of the editions of Dead Souls
  • Daniel Agina,[2] Kenyan association football player

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Ganzhina, p. 13
  2. ↑ His last name is unrelated to the Russian last name "Agina"

Sources

  • И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Москва, 2001. ISBN 5-237-04101-9
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