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Flann

Girl or boy · Old Irish

Flann

Say it: FLAHN

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Meaning

Old Irish flann 'red, ruddy, blood-red'.

Likelythe main view, with some doubt.

Borne by both men and women in early Ireland.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

  1. The Early Middle Ages400 to 800
  2. The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450

Used by

Irish

Famous bearers

  • Flann Sinna, High King of Ireland
  • Flann O'Brien, pen name of novelist Brian O'Nolan

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Where this comes from

  • The Irish annals and early Irish literature

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