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Cadfan

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Gender Masculine
Usage Old Welsh [1]

Meaning & History

From an Old Welsh name, recorded in Latinized forms such as Catamanus, meaning "battle peak" from cat "battle" and bann "peak". Saint Cadfan, from Brittany, was a 6th-century missionary to Wales.

Related Names

Rootscat + bann

Categories

landforms, saints, war

Sources & References

  1. Page at https://www.s-gabriel.org/names/tangwystyl/british1000/appendix3.html.
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Entry updated April 5, 2022

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