Boy's name
Breandán
“BREN-dawn”
probably from a Welsh word for 'prince'; not from bran, 'raven'
The story behind the name
St Brendan the Navigator sailed west from Kerry in a hide boat looking for the Isle of the Blessed, and the medieval bestseller 'Navigatio Sancti Brendani' described what he found. Tim Severin's 1976 voyage proved a leather curragh really can reach Newfoundland.
Its age
Associated with AD 530 — Patrick & the Rise of the Uí Néill.
See Ireland in that year on the atlas ↗
Where the name belongs
Famous people with this name
- Breandán Breathnach (1912–1985) — Irish uilleann piper and music collector
- Breandán Ó hEithir (1930–1990) — Irish writer and broadcaster
- Breandán Ó Buachalla (1936–2010) — Gaelic language scholar
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Breandán on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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