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FINNEGAN
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Gender: Masculine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: FIN-ə-gən [key]
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From an Irish surname which was derived from 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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