Boy's name
Donnán
“DUN-awn”
a diminutive of donn, 'brown'
The story behind the name
Woulfe counts four saints of the name. The best known, Donnán of Eigg, was a priest who tried to bring Christianity to the Picts and was killed on the Hebridean island of Eigg on 17 April 617. He is its patron saint.
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