Boy's name
Fintan
“FIN-tan”
fionn + tan, 'white fire' or 'fair offspring'
The story behind the name
Fintan mac Bóchra, in the mythological tradition, survived the Flood in Ireland and lived five thousand years as the island's memory — a one-man archive. Some seventy saints share the name, chief among them Fintan of Clonenagh.
Where the name belongs
Famous people with this name
- Fintan McCarthy (born 1996) — Irish rower
- Fintan Monahan (born 1967) — bishop of Killaloe
- Fintan of Rheinau (AD 803–AD 878) — Irish monk
- Fintan Gavin (born 1966) — Irish Roman Catholic prelate
- Fintan O'Toole (born 1958) — Award winning Irish journalist
Irish people with an English Wikipedia article whose given name is recorded as Fintan on Wikidata; descriptions from Wikidata.
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