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Hanks and Hodges say that it is an English name of unknown origin but hint that it may be an anglicization of Welsh Baughan (found also as Vaughan ), a diminutive of Baugh , ultimately from bach `little.
I wonder, though, why the Baughan (and Vaughan ) entries do not mention that bach was an epithet that distinguished a son and father, a kind of Welsh equivalent of junior . I also have my doubts about how ordinary users of this dictionary will cope with its metalanguage.
' There was no cross reference to Baughan , however, nor a mention of Cornish byhan/vyhan `little.
But try that on an ordinary member of the public, the kind of person who will presumably consult this book in a library, and add in for good measure the last line of the Baughan entry which reads: “Cogn.