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
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