Boy's name
Enda
“EN-da”
possibly 'bird-like'
The story behind the name
St Énda founded the monastery on Inis Mór in the Aran Islands around 484 — the earliest Irish monastic foundation of which we have record, and the school where Ciarán of Clonmacnoise and Brendan the Navigator are said to have trained.
Its age
Associated with AD 484 — Patrick & the Rise of the Uí Néill.
See Ireland in that year on the atlas ↗
Where the name belongs
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