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View Name: Fingal


FINGAL
GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Scottish
Meaning & History
From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall meaning "white stranger", derived from fionn "white, fair" and gall "stranger". This was the name of the hero in James Macpherson's epic poem 'Fingal' (1762), which he claimed to have based on early Gaelic legends about Fionn mac Cumhail.
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VARIANTS: Fingall, Fionnghall



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