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
Famous people with this name
- Enda Kenny (born 1951) — Irish poliitician (* 1951)
- Enda Stevens (born 1990) — Irish association football player
- Enda Walsh (born 1967) — Irish playwright
- Enda of Aran (AD 450–AD 540) — Irish monastic
- Enda O'Coineen (born 1955) — Irish offshore sailor and navigator
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Enda on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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