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View Name: Finnegan


FINNEGAN
GENDER: Masculine
PRONOUNCED: FIN-ə-gən   [key]
Meaning & History
From an Irish surname, an Anglicized form of Ó Fionnagáin meaning "descendent of Fionnagán". The name Fionnagán is a diminutive of FIONN. This was the name of a character in James Joyce's novel 'Finnegans Wake' (1939), the title of which was based on a 19th-century Irish ballad called 'Finnegan's Wake'.
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