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Gender Masculine
Pronounced Pron. aw-SHEEN(Irish) o-SHEEN(English)

Meaning & History

Means "little deer", derived from Old Irish oss "deer, stag" combined with a diminutive suffix. In Irish legend Oisín was a warrior hero and a poet, the son of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the narrator in many of his tales.