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Aidan or Aiden are anglicised versions of the Irish male given name Aodhán. [1] Phonetic variants such as Aiden have become more common. The Irish language female equivalent is Aodhnait .
Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne.
The name Aidin (Adin) is a variation of Aidan, which is derived from the Irish male given name Aodhán, a pet form of Aodh.The personal name Aodh means "fiery" and/or "bringer of fire" and was the name of a Celtic sun god (see Aed).
Aidan. A little boy carrying this moniker won’t give up easily as this name means “the fiery one.” ... Meaning “Irish poet,” this name is rare, but cute. 34. Séaghdha. The spelling for ...
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right. A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced ...
The Irish spelling is Dearbhla — and not surprisingly, that wasn’t used either. Donnacha — This popular boys’ name in Ireland is pronounced dunn-ah-ka , and means “brown-haired warrior.”
His birth name was Áed, the name of the Irish god of the underworld, meaning "fire". The name Aidan is a diminutive form of Aed or Aodh, and was also a form of the Latin name Dominus. Máedóc and Mogue are other pet forms of Aed or Aodh, formed from the Irish affectionate prefix mo-and the diminutive suffix -óg, meaning "young", making for ...
"Aidan/Aiden" was the most popular boys' name in Canada in 2007. The Guanche male name can be roughly translated as "he who lives underwater". The Turkish and Azerbaijani feminine given name literally means "from the moon" ("ay": moon, and -dan is a suffix meaning "from"). Figuratively, it means made of the moon or the one that comes from the moon.