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Scottish
Scottish : reduced form of McKenley, a variant of McKinley, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Fionnlaigh.English : habitational name from places in Shropshire and Greater London (formerly Surrey), so named from the Old English personal name Cēna + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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Irish
Means “â€fair-headed.â€â€ Fionn Mac Cool (read the legend), a central character in Irish folklore and mythology lead the warrior band, the Fianna (read the legend). Fionn was not only incredibly strong but he was also extremely brave, handsome, generous and wise, a wisdom he aquired by touching the “â€Salmon of Knowledgeâ€â€ (read the legend) and then sucking his thumb. The name is popular in Ireland with both spellings Fionn and Finn.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnaláin ‘descendant of Fionnalán’, a personal name from a diminutive of fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ (see Finn 1).English (Huguenot) : altered form of French Fénelon (see Fenelon).
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a grower or seller of fennel (Old English finugle, fenol, from Late Latin fenuculum). Fennel was widely used in the Middle Ages as a herb for seasoning. The surname may also have been a topographic name for someone who lived near a place where the herb grew or was grown.English : Reaney also identifies this as a derivative of Fitz Neal ‘son of Neal’, citing as an example Fennells Wood, a place name recorded in 1391 as Fenelgrove and named for a Robert FitzNeel (1283).Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Fionnghail ‘descendant of Fionnghal’, a personal name composed of the elements fionn ‘fair’, ‘white’ + gal ‘valor’.
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English
English : habitational name from any of various places, in Lincolnshire, Northumberland, Staffordshire, and South Yorkshire, so called from Old English fenn ‘marsh’, ‘fen’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’Irish : English surname adopted by bearers of Gaelic Ó Fionnachta (see Finnerty) or Ó Fiachna ‘descendant of Fiachna’, an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as Hunt (see Fee).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : Americanized form of various like-sounding names, for example Finkelstein (see Funke).
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English
English : in the northeast, from the Gilpin river in Cumbria; in southern counties, probably a variant of Galpin.Irish (Connacht) : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fionn ‘son of the fair-haired lad’. In Ulster, the name may be of northern English origin (see 1 above).
Female
Scottish
Variant spelling of Scottish Gaelic Fionnghuala, FIONNAGHAL means "white shoulder."
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Irish
Irish : reduced form of McGinn, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Finn ‘son of Fionn’.English : from Middle English gin ‘trick’, ‘contrivance’, ‘snare’, a reduced form of Middle English engin (see Ingham 2), hence a metonymic occupational name for a trapper or a nickname for a cunning person.
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English
English : nickname meaning ‘handsome’, ‘beautiful’, ‘fair’, Middle English fair, fayr, Old English fæger. The word was also occasionally used as a personal name in Middle English, applied to both men and women.Irish : translation of Gaelic fionn ‘fair’, which Woulfe describes as ‘a descriptive epithet that supplanted the real surname’, or a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac F(h)inn, a variant of Mag Fhinn (see McGinn).
Female
Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Fionnghuala, FIONNAGHUALA means "white shoulder."
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Irish
Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Beargha ‘descendant of Beargh’, a byname meaning ‘plunderer’.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Báire ‘descendant of Báire’, a short form of either of two Gaelic personal names, Bairrfhionn or Fionnbharr.English, of Welsh origin : patronymic from Harry, the medieval English vernacular form of Henry, preceded by Welsh ap ‘son of’. Compare Parry.Variant spelling of Barrie 1.
Male
Irish
Variant form of Irish Gaelic Fiontan, FIONNTÃN means "white fire."Â
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Finn ‘descendant of Fionn’, a byname meaning ‘white’ or ‘fair-haired’. This name is borne by several families in the west of Ireland.English : from the Old Norse personal name Finnr ‘Finn’, used both as a byname and as a short form of various compound names with this first element.German : ethnic name for someone from Finland.
Girl/Female
Gaelic Irish
A Gaelic name of unknown meaning.
Female
Irish
Modern form of Irish Gaelic Fionnghuala, FIONNUALA means "white shoulder."
Male
Irish
Modern Gaelic form of Old Irish Finn, FIONN means "fair, white."Â
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : from Middle English whit ‘white’, hence a nickname for someone with white hair or an unnaturally pale complexion. In some cases it represents a Middle English personal name, from an Old English byname, Hwīt(a), of this origin. As a Scottish and Irish surname it has been widely used as a translation of the many Gaelic names based on bán ‘white’ (see Bain 1) or fionn ‘fair’ (see Finn 1). There has also been some confusion with Wight.Translated form of cognate and equivalent names in other languages, such as German Weiss, French Blanc, Polish Białas (see Bialas), etc.Peregrine White (1620–1704), brother of Resolved, was born in Cape Cod harbor on board the Mayflower, thus becoming the first child of English descent to be born in New England. His father, William White, was the son of the rector of Barham, near Ipswich, Suffolk, England; he died in 1621 during the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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Irish
The name comes from fionn + ghuala “fair shouldered.†The chieftan King Lir and his wife Aobh had a daughter Fionnoula and three sons Aedh, Conn and Fiachra. When Aodh died Lir’s new wife Aoife was so jealous of her husband’s love for his children that she cast a spell on them and turned them into swans and condemned them to spend 300 years on Lake Daravarragh, 300 years on the Sea of Moyle and 300 years on Innis Glora. However, if they heard a Christian bell in Ireland they would become people again. One morning they were awakened by the sound of a Mass bell. St. Patrick had arrived. The children were brought to him and he baptised them and they have lived on in Irish mythology as the “Children of Lir†(read the legend).
Girl/Female
Irish
The name comes from fionn + ghuala “fair shouldered.†The chieftan King Lir and his wife Aobh had a daughter Fionnoula and three sons Aedh, Conn and Fiachra. When Aodh died Lir’s new wife Aoife was so jealous of her husband’s love for his children that she cast a spell on them and turned them into swans and condemned them to spend 300 years on Lake Daravarragh, 300 years on the Sea of Moyle and 300 years on Innis Glora. However, if they heard a Christian bell in Ireland they would become people again. One morning they were awakened by the sound of a Mass bell. St. Patrick had arrived. The children were brought to him and he baptised them and they have lived on in Irish mythology as the “Children of Lir†(read the legend).
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Gaelic Irish
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