as a Last Name
- 2,030
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Fergus
Meaning & Origins
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fearghuis or Ó Fearghasa ‘descendant of Fearghus ’, a personal name composed of the elements fear ‘man’ + gus ‘vigor’, ‘force’, or possibly ‘choice’. This was the name of an early Irish mythological figure, a valiant warrior, also of the grandfather of St. Columba.
| 14,651st in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 2,030
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Oregon
- has the most people named Fergus per capita
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