Boy's name
Lasairian
“LASS-a-reen”
from lasair, 'a flame'
The story behind the name
Four Irish saints carried it; one is patron of the diocese of Leighlin in Carlow, where the great old yew still stands at St Laserian's.
Where the name belongs
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