Boy's name
Caolán
“KAY-lawn”
'slender' — a diminutive of caol
The story behind the name
The name of seven Irish saints, and one of the Gaelic names that came back strongly in the twentieth century.
Famous people with this name
- Caolan McAleer (born 1993) — British footballer
- Caolan Robertson (born 1995) — Irish journalist and film producer
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Caolán on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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