Boy's name
Cormac
“KOR-mak”
possibly 'son of the charioteer' or 'raven's son'; disputed
The story behind the name
Cormac mac Airt is the legendary wise high king of Tara, to whom a book of maxims is attributed. Cormac mac Cuilennáin, king-bishop of Cashel, died in battle in 908 and left behind Ireland's first known glossary — a dictionary of hard words a thousand years before dictionaries were normal.
Its age
Associated with AD 908 — Norse Cities & the Rise of Brian.
See Ireland in that year on the atlas ↗
Famous people with this name
- Cormac mac Cuilennáin (AD 801–AD 908) — Irish bishop and king of Munster
- Cormac Breathnach (1886–1956) — Irish politician and teacher
- Cormac Breslin (1902–1978) — Irish politician
- Cormac Ó Gráda (born 1945) — Irish economic historian and professor of economics at University College Dublin
- Cormac Devlin (born 1980) — Irish politician
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Cormac on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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