Magana surname meaning

Magana is the unaccented American spelling of Spanish Magaña, a habitational surname from either of the villages named Magaña in Soria and Córdoba provinces. Families who left those places could take the village name as their hereditary surname. In U.S. Census and catalog use the ñ is usually dropped, yielding Magana, while Magaña remains the standard Spanish form. Place is high confidence: DAFN gives a single habitational explanation with no competing occupational or nickname sense for this surname. This page displays Magana to match Census romanization and uses the slug magana.