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. 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