Meaning and formation
Ilagan has the Tagalog verb source ilagan, “to be dodged”. The surname was earlier written Ylagan and later commonly respelled with I. Community organizer Rizalina “Lina” Parabuac Ilagan opposed martial law and disappeared in 1977. She is honored on the Wall of Remembrance at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani.
Spelling variants
- Ylagan · Spelling source ↗
Dictionary pronunciation
- Tagalog: /ʔiˈlaɡan/ · Wiktionary ↗
- Cebuano: /ʔiˈlaɡan/ · Wiktionary ↗
Public figures with this surname
Elected officials in the 2001 list
Ilagan has 10 records in the OpenHalalan transcription of the 2001 COMELEC elected-candidate lists.
OpenHalalan — 2001 ↗Contains information from OpenHalalan by Robert R. Leung, available under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. ODbL 1.0 ↗ · Download surname counts